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gabieowleyess 's review for:
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
by Lisa Delpit
I read this book with my Antiracist book club at work and here are a few ideas and quotes that stuck with me while reading this book (prepare yourself for a lot of Educator jargon):
1. I felt extremely validated as a Black educator who doesn't really feel like she was included in the dialogue about literacy and didn't understand why.
2. "Liberation for poor kids and linguistic minorities starts with accepting their culture and language and helping them build on it." YESS!!!
3. I really want to develop my own learning of grammar, spelling patterns, and the process of teaching a student how to read so that I can be a better educator.
4. "What the school personnel fails to understand is that if the parents were members of the culture of power and lived by its rules and codes, then they would transmit those codes to their children." If students parents are NOT members of the culture of power, educators need to realize that it is important to teach those rules and codes.
5. "Pretending that gatekeeping points don't exist is to ensure that many students will not pass through them" THANK YOU!
6. I really want to begin teaching lessons about the difference between "Formal English" and "Heritage English".
7. "To summarize, I suggest that students must be taught the codes needed to participate fully in the mainstream of American life, not by being forced to attend to hollow, inane, decontextualized subskills, but rather within the context of meaningful communicative endeavors; that they must be allowed the resource of the teacher's expert knowledge while being helped to acknowledge their own 'expertness' as well; and that even while students are assisted in learning the culture of power, they must also be helped to learn about the arbitrariness of those codes and about the power relationships they represent." ABOSLUTELY YESSSS.'
8. " The purpose of education is to learn to die satisfied with life." I really love this idea!
9. There's a lot of hard work that needs to be done in education.
10. Reading this helped me solidify the fact that I want to stay in education for a long time.
1. I felt extremely validated as a Black educator who doesn't really feel like she was included in the dialogue about literacy and didn't understand why.
2. "Liberation for poor kids and linguistic minorities starts with accepting their culture and language and helping them build on it." YESS!!!
3. I really want to develop my own learning of grammar, spelling patterns, and the process of teaching a student how to read so that I can be a better educator.
4. "What the school personnel fails to understand is that if the parents were members of the culture of power and lived by its rules and codes, then they would transmit those codes to their children." If students parents are NOT members of the culture of power, educators need to realize that it is important to teach those rules and codes.
5. "Pretending that gatekeeping points don't exist is to ensure that many students will not pass through them" THANK YOU!
6. I really want to begin teaching lessons about the difference between "Formal English" and "Heritage English".
7. "To summarize, I suggest that students must be taught the codes needed to participate fully in the mainstream of American life, not by being forced to attend to hollow, inane, decontextualized subskills, but rather within the context of meaningful communicative endeavors; that they must be allowed the resource of the teacher's expert knowledge while being helped to acknowledge their own 'expertness' as well; and that even while students are assisted in learning the culture of power, they must also be helped to learn about the arbitrariness of those codes and about the power relationships they represent." ABOSLUTELY YESSSS.'
8. " The purpose of education is to learn to die satisfied with life." I really love this idea!
9. There's a lot of hard work that needs to be done in education.
10. Reading this helped me solidify the fact that I want to stay in education for a long time.