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Scholarship March 29, 2017

The Misteaching of Academic Discourses: The Politics of Language in the Classroom

The Wabash Center

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Author
Bartolome, Lilia I.
Publisher
Westview Press, Boulder, CO
Bartolome explores issues in teaching working-class minority students the mainstream academic ways of speaking necessary for success in school. Drawing from her own experience as a white teacher of Mexican- American students, she reveals the veiled antagonism between students and teacher, emphasizes the political dimensions of language, and critiques the dominant deficit ideology that underlies the cultural difference explanation of academic underachievement among linguistic minority students. (From the Publisher)