[PDF] Reading Across Cultures eBook

Author : Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000538982

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This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.

Author : Sheena Gillespie
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, "Across Cultures," strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. Diversity and the interrelationship General Interest

Author : John Hooker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804748070

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A guide to adapting and thriving within unfamiliar cultural settings challenges the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the etiquette level, distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures while considering the roles of such factors as competition, security, and lifestyle. (Social Science)

Author : Theresa Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807735510

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The process of Reading Across Cultures: Teaching Literature in a Diverse Society does not occur without struggle and resistance, and there are no operating instructions for teachers. Instead, these stories and insights from a range of students, teachers and classrooms are offered to continue the conversation about literature, culture and teaching. The book should be an important resource in graduate courses in literacy and children's/YA literature and courses in teaching of literature, as well as for teachers of English.

Author : Sheena Gillespie
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780205329564

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"Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased general interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, Fifth Edition strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures. The book provides an extensive sampling of and advocates acceptance of a diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover an even greater variety of cultural facets than the table of contents indicates. For example, the readings in "Work," the subject of Chapter 4, lead students to consider related subjects such as affirmative action, immigration, cultural displacement, family narratives, and definitions of success. Throughout the text, readers are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through "Correspondence" questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills." For those interested in developing their critical thinking, reading and writing skills, while learning about cultural diversity.

Author : Yukari Takimoto Amos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475836910

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Teachers’ selection of the literature they use in instruction frequently depends on how they interpret, in other words whether or not they accurately take in the authors’ perspectives. This point presents a particular challenge in the selection of international literature. International literature reflects a country’s and a region’s unique cultural values and practices and is usually not written for people outside the country of origin. Therefore, it is possible that readers in other countries may not understand/be aware of those values and misinterpret the stories. Since Asian and the Western countries, including the U.S., hold maximum sociocultural differences and the perceived cultural distance has remained significantly wide, reading and interpreting literature from Asia can present tremendous challenges to Americans. The book addresses the challenges teachers face when interpreting and teaching with international children’s literature from Asia. The book engages readers with comprehensive coverage on theories, concepts, pitfalls, and applications when endeavoring to use international children’s literature from Asia in classrooms. The book should be used to teach how interpretations/worldviews vary by cultures, and how power influences such interpretations/worldviews. Strategies and frameworks will be provided relating to how teachers can be more culturally conscious of their own biases and develop culturally authentic interpretations.

Author : Sheena Gillespie
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2010
Category : College readers
ISBN : 9780205780372

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Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures, Across Cultures, strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of a diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. The selections cover a great variety of cultural facets both in the readings and selected visuals that appear at the end of each chapter. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to draw connections between and among readings through "Correspondence" questions that accompany each selection, thus developing their critical thinking skills.

Author : Stuart Hirschberg
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781133311072

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PATTERNS ACROSS CULTURES is a rhetorically organized reader driven by the principle that as the world gets smaller, students should be exposed to a wide variety of cultural perspectives--both from within the United States and from other countries. Many of the reading selections in the text are by writers who have never been anthologized, providing an invigorating alternative to traditional readers. Post-reading features for each selection, including questions on author's "Meaning," "Technique," and "Language," help students examine how the selection utilizes both the primary mode and other modes as well; calls out key vocabulary terms; highlights thematic connections between selections; and provides prompts for both personal and critical writing. To assist those instructors who prefer a thematic framework for discussing the selections, a thematic Table of Contents and Thematic Links questions connecting each essay with one or more others on similar themes will provide inspiration for theme-based discussions and writing assignments. Available with InfoTrac® Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.