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Cultural Diversity in Schools: From Rhetoric to Practice »

Authors: Robert A. DeVillar (Editor), James P. Cummins (Editor), Christian J. Faltis
ISBN-13: 9780791416730, ISBN-10: 0791416739
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: May 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Introduction: Reconciling Cultural Diversity and Quality Schooling: Paradigmatic Elements of a Socioacademic Framework	1
1	The Rhetoric and Practice of Cultural Diversity in U.S. Schools: Socialization, Resocialization, and Quality Schooling	25
2	Cooperative Learning in the Culturally Diverse Classroom	57
3	Building Bridges for the Future: Anthropological Contributions to Diversity and Classroom Practices	75
4	Responding Successfully to Cultural Diversity in Our Schools: The Teacher Connection	101
5	Mentoring, Peer Coaching, and Support Systems for First-Year Minority/Bilingual Teachers	117
6	Cooperative Learning for Language-Minority Students	145
7	Influences of L1 Writing Proficiency on L2 Writing Proficiency	161
8	Promoting Positive Cross-Cultural Attitudes and Perceived Competence in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms	189
9	Managing Behavior in the Culturally Diverse Classroom	207
10	Effectiveness of Bilingual Education: A Comparison of Various Approaches in an Elementary School District	233
11	A Communicative Computer Environment for the Acquisition of ESL	263
12	Bilingual Team-Teaching Partnerships Over Long Distances: A Technology-Mediated Context for Intragroup Language Attitude Change	299
13	Teaching Teachers about Computers and Collaborative Problem-Solving	333
14	Pedagogical and Research Uses of Computer-Mediated Conferencing	349
	Conclusion: The Socioacademic Achievement Model in the Context of Coercive and Collaborative Relations of Power	363
	Author Index	391
	Subject Index	398