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Scholarship March 29, 2017

The Foreign Self: Truth Telling as Educational Inquiry

The Wabash Center

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Author
Tochon, Francois V., ed.
Publisher
Atwood Publishing, Madison, WI
ISBN
1891859412
Table of Contents
Foreword (Gloria Ladson-Billings)
Introduction (François V. Tochon)

ch. 1 Blending Oil into Water: Making the Invisible Visible and Giving a Voice to the Silenced (Jung Euen Choi)
ch. 2 Hail to the Email: Tales about Foreign Language Education in a Globalized Age (Sabine Raizler and Gloria Carter)
ch. 3 Minority Languages in the Classroom: Promise becomes Possibility (Elizabeth R. Miller)
ch. 4 Practicum Students' Confessions on Truth-telling in Reflections: Kurosawa’s Dreams (Mary K. Thompson-Cooper)
ch. 5 Finding the Truth in Our Inclusive Community (Amy Krauthamer-Maloney)
ch. 6 Between Black-and-White and Blue-White-Red: Pictorial Illustrations and Color in the Foreign Language Textbook (Hyo-Kyung Ahn)
ch. 7 The Truth about Grooms (or, How to Tell Those Tuxedoed Men Apart) (Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower)
ch. 8 Families of the Soul: The Truth on Method (François V. Tochon)

Bibliography
Unidentified contributors, but perhaps foreign language teachers, explain how situating oneself outside of a familiar context can lead to self-examination, which is itself the basis of education. Cross-cultural educators and language teachers are the intended audience for this semiotic, intercultural exploration of the idea of self. (From the Publisher)