Talking Leaves: Narratives of Otherness (Suzanne SooHoo)
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 1-57273-646-1 Price:$52.50 Title: Talking Leaves Sub-title: Narratives of Otherness Author(s): Suzanne SooHoo Publish Date: April 2006 Pages: 240 Affiliation: Chapman University Format: Cloth
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Talking Leaves is a compendium of stories of Otherness. A gift from Chapman University School of Education students, the book honors their struggle with Otherness and includes stories about color, gender, ethnicity, language, social status, family immigration status and whiteness. The author accompanies the found categories of stories with an aromatic incense of her own socio-cultural identity as an Asian American woman educator. This work illustrates the art of narrative pedagogy in the development of a critical consciousness that both examines the culture of domination within schools and generates a language of possibility. Contents: Foreword, Christine Sleeter. Introduction. Personal Narrative. THE CULTURE OF MARGINALIZATION. Talking Leaves. Stories of Otherness Give Life to Critical Consciousness. Otherness Heard Differently. Understanding Otherness. Otherness Informs Democracy. Critical Multiculturalism. The "Other" as Social Justice Educator. THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF STORY. Stories as Self-Liberating. Stories Build Community. Transforming Power of Stories. Story in Teacher Education. WHO IS AN "OTHER". People of Color. People of Non-Color. Narratives. My Voice as Aromatic Incense. Conditions for Dialogue. Colorism. Physical Attributes. Gender. Immigration and Ethnicity. Language. A Love Note. Social Class. Intellectual Difference. Religion. Family. White. CRITICAL LITERACY. Learning from Others. Narratives as a Tool to Build Capacity for Empathy. Critical Literacy. The Power of One. The Power of Many. Social Justice Projects. Bystanderism. References. Author Index. Subject Index.