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Iroquois Corn In a Culture-Based Curriculum (Suny Series, The Social Context of Education)
[Buy it!] | Cornelius, Carol | USD 23.35
(Mon Jun 3 08:24:34 2024) | Abebooks | Ergodebooks | ISBN10: 0791440281, ISBN13: 9780791440285, [publisher: Brand: State University of New York Press] Softcover First Edition Provides a framework and an example for studying diverse cultures in a respectful manner, using the thematic focus of corn to examine the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture."Using American schools to help citizens understand, respect, and value cultural diversity is extremely important. However, efforts in K-12 schools today to teach about 'other' cultures are a mile wide and an inch deep. That is to say everybody is doing it, but almost nobody is doing it with the honesty, legitimacy, and thoroughness that this task requires. This book faces this challenge, makes the arguments for thorough and honest exploration of one such culture, and demonstrates the rich information and insight to be gained from learning about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture. This topic is significant in itself, and significant in providing a better understanding of the demands of legitimate multicultural education." -- Joseph M. Larkin, California State University at Monterey BayCarol Cornelius offers a new culture-based framework that provides a way to research and develop curricula based on respect of the diverse cultures of this nation. Using the Haudenosaunee culture as an example, Cornelius examines the source and reasons for the prevailing stereotypes about American Indians and explains how those stereotypes became the standard curriculum taught in America. She uses the components of world view and how it structures a way of life--the interaction of corn and culture, the dynamic aspect of Haudenosaunee culture, and the contemporary role of corn--to weave the interdependent, holistic, interdisciplinary framework for culture-based curriculum. Using this conceptual model, teachers can develop a culturally sensitive curriculum on any culture. The book therefore fills a void for teachers who want to utilize a multicultural approach in their classroom, but don't know how to begin the process."This book is the only fully-realized, conceptually-framed, and lyrically-phrased example of school curriculum that is based on Indian America's world view and resulting practices. The organizing metaphor of the 'Three Sisters' (corn, beans, and squash) captures the values of the Iroquois nation and presents the values with dignity and respect for a powerful tradition." -- Georgia Johnson, University of Idaho"The topic of diversity and multiculturalism is becoming more and more important as a societal issue. Tolerance and understanding are imperative to the well being of all people and facets of society. The topic is timely, yet doesn't engage in guilt laden politics or blaming." -- George L. Cornell, Michigan State University
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The BBC Shakespeare Plays : Making the Televised Canon
[Buy it!] | Susan Willis | USD 80.64
(Mon Jun 3 08:24:40 2024) | AbebooksDE | AHA-BUCH GmbH | ISBN10: 0807843172, ISBN13: 9780807843178, [publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Between 1978 and 1985 the BBC televised the entire Shakespeare canon of thirty-seven plays, a remarkable technical and dramatic accomplishment. Susan Willis, an American scholar in Shakespeare studies and performance, observed the making of a number of these television plays. Here she presents not only a full-scale history and analysis of the BBC series but an unprecedented eyewitness account of the productions, from planning and rehearsal to taping and editing.Willis shows how the technical elements of television distinguish these productions from stage and film, and she explains how differences in transmission, tastes, educational efforts, and critical responses made the productions a different experience on each side of the Atlantic. She assesses the diversity of styles used by such directors as Jonathan Miller, Elijah Moshinsky, and Jane Howell, for after the early filmic bias toward the productions, directors experimented with unit or stylized sets, Renaissance space and lighting effects, and varieties of scenic realism as methods of embodying Shakespeare's plays for television.The BBC Shakespeare Plays will give readers an accurate sense of television production, take Shakespeare buffs behind the scenes, and serve as an interpretive guide for teachers, thousands of whom have found the BBC productions to be vital classroom adjuncts in teaching Shakespeare.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2002]
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