Author:
Young, Vershawn Ashanti.
Imprint:New York : Teachers College Press/Teachers College/Columbia University, [2014]
Descriptionxv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction: Are you a part of the conversation? -- Part 1: African American English and the promise of code-meshing / Rusty Barrett. Rewarding language : language ideology and prescriptive grammar ; You are what you speak : language variation, identity, and education ; Be yourself somewhere else : what's wrong with keeping undervalued English out of the classroom? -- Part 2: Code-meshing or code-switching? / Vershawn Ashanti Young. Linguistic double consciousness ; The costs of code-switching ; Code-meshing : the new way to do English -- Part 3: Code-meshing and responsible education in two middle school classrooms / Y'Shanda Young-Rivera. Code-meshing and responsible education ; Reimagining the classroom : code-meshing and the 21st-century student ; Making sense of it all : Code-meshing and educational reform -- Part 4: Code-meshing and culturally relevant pedagogy for college writing instruction / Kim Brian Lovejoy. Code-meshing : teachers and students creating community ; Code-meshing through self-directed writing ; Composing code-meshing : thoughts on what to do and how to do it -- Coda: The power of language.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.
