[PDF] Shoptalk eBook

Author : Yolanda J. Majors
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 080775661X

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Shoptalk examines the development of literacy, identity, and thinking skills that takes place through cross generation conversation in an African American hair salon and how it can inform teaching in today's diverse classrooms. By shining a spotlight on verbal discussions between the salon's patrons and workers, the author provides a critical reassessment of the achievement gap discourse and focuses on the intellectual toolkits available to African Americans as members of thriving communities. While this book offers a detailed analysis of the informal teaching and language practice that occurs within the salon, it also moves beyond that setting to consider culturally situated problem-solving within an urban, language arts classroom. Shoptalk is essential reading for teachers, teacher educators, and administrators who are interested in widening their view of culturally responsive pedagogical practices.

Author : Will Eisner
Publisher : Dark Horse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Cartooning
ISBN : 9781569715369

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Will Eisner is a master of the comics medium, and when he got together to chat with other masters of the medium, what came of it was a collection of information vital to everyone working in the industry, and indispensable to anyone looking to get into it. Featuring interviews with Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Jack Davis, Neal Adams, C.C. Beck, Milton Caniff, Gill Fox, Harvey Kurtzman, and distribution guru Phil Seuling, Will Eisner's Shop Talk is chock full of golden tidbits of comics knowledge.

Author : Yolanda J. Majors
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0807773832

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Shoptalk examines the development of literacy, identity, and thinking skills that takes place through cross generation conversation in an African American hair salon and how it can inform teaching in today’s diverse classrooms. By shining a spotlight on verbal discussions between the salon’s patrons and workers, the author provides a critical reassessment of the achievement gap discourse and focuses on the intellectual toolkits available to African Americans as members of thriving communities. While this book offers a detailed analysis of the informal teaching and language practice that occurs within the salon, it also moves beyond that setting to consider culturally situated problem-solving within an urban, language arts classroom. Shoptalk is essential reading for teachers, teacher educators, and administrators who are interested in widening their view of culturally responsive pedagogical practices. Book Features: Examines how African Americans use language, including African American Vernacular English, to achieve particular goals. Identifies culturally relevant literacy practices and related skills and how these can be supported within and across contexts. Shows teachers how to leverage the out-of-school practices of students of color for literacy learning and development. Shows school leaders how to develop and maintain learning environments that are culturally responsive. Demonstrates research methodologies for the study of the social context of learning. “This rare and wonderful book gets us to think in fresh and creative ways about the intersection of race, language, work, and school. What a gem.” —Mike Rose, research professor, UCLA and author, The Mind at Work “This fascinating ethnography of speaking opens a window into an important socialization setting while also opening up new theoretical territory. It provides understanding, wisdom, and hope for how we might improve educational outcomes for African American children.” —James V. Wertsch, vice chancellor for International Affairs,Washington University in St. Louis

Author : Donald Morison Murray
Publisher : Boynton/Cook
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Collection of quotations from writers.

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : HMH
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2001-09-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0547344899

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The legendary author’s essays and interviews explore how fellow writers from Milan Kundera to Edna O’Brien are influenced by time, place, and politics. Writers are often deeply influenced by the time and place in which they live and write. In Shop Talk, Philip Roth, winner of a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and numerous other literary honors, explores the intimate relationship a writer’s experience has with his or her work. In a series of essays, Roth recounts his intellectual encounters with writers, discussing with them the diverse regions from which they hail and pondering the influence of locale, politics, and history on their work. Featuring luminaries such as Milan Kundera discussing Czechoslovakia; Primo Levi talking about Auschwitz; Edna O’Brien reflecting on Ireland; Isaac Bashevis Singer tackling Warsaw; Aharon Appelfeld on Bukovina; and Ivan Klíma on Prague, Roth’s conversations touch on the conditions that inspire great art, with artists as attuned to the subtleties of their societies as they are the nuances of words. Also including a portrait of Bernard Malamud, a written exchange with Mary McCarthy about Roth’s The Counterlife, and the essay “Rereading Saul Bellow,” Shop Talk is a “fascinating [glimpse] of some of the deans of postwar literature” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Author : Bessie Head
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780435909819

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Botswana village tales about subjects such as the breakdown of family life and the position of women in this society.

Author : Nekousa Mullin
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category :
ISBN : 0741420260

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"Shop Talk is about two young women chasing fame and fortune, and although the story is fiction, it reflects the thought - process of many in today's society."

Author : Tyler Brule
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500971145

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From the team at Monocle, a look at some of the coziest and most creative homes around the world. Good homes are places where lives unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, and friends share meals. They’re also spaces to find some solitude—a quiet corner to read a book or have a Saturday afternoon nap. Homes need to do it all—they sustain you, inspire you, and tell your story through architecture, design, and collections. Monocle has always celebrated everything that makes a space a home when covering residences—whether featuring a city hideaway, a modernist seaside residence, or a summer outpost in a forest. The Monocle team brings this all together in one volume that explores individual homes, housing projects old and new, communities of self-builders, even whole neighborhoods where a simple philosophy of building well has created quality of life for many. The Monocle Book of the Home is packed with great photography that delivers the bigger picture and the smallest details alongside fascinating essays full of advice by key thinkers, writers, and designers. As we spend more time at home than ever, this is a book that could change how you live.