intercultural issues june

• 1. Intercultural Issues: BiliteracyThomas DeVere Wolsey, Ed. D. Walden UniversityVirtual Presentation at Universidad Distrital Franscisco Jose de Caldas June 15, 2011

2.

• Defining Biliteracy

• Program

• Curriculum

Biliteracy 3.

• Problematizing

• Tasks

• • Simulations, case study, field work, readings, inquiry

Biliteracy 4.

• What is Technology?(Hughes, 2004)

• What does it have to do with literacy and intercultural engagement in the classroom?

Technology 5.

• Culture and Literacy

• • • Literacy is a social practice

• • • Culture is the expression of social practice

• • • Identity

Biliteracy and Culture 6.

• Culture and Literacy

• • • When cultures meet

• • • Language as a resource(Gonzalez, Moll, & Amanti, 2005)

• • • Language is the technology of critical thinking

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• Culture and Literacy

• • • Literacy can be the lens, a kind of tool, for cross-cultural engagement.

Biliteracy and Culture 9.

• Culture of the Classroom

Biliteracy and Culture 10.

• Honigsfeld,A.,Giouroukakis, V., and Garfinkel, J . (2011).Immigrant literature in the secondary English classroom:Rationale and recommendations.The California Reader , 44(3), 25-31.

The Literature Students Read 11.

• Gonzalez N. Molll, L. C. & Amanti. C. (2005).Funds of knowledge: Theorizing practices in households and classrooms.New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

• Hughes, T. (2004).Human-built world: How to think about technology and culture. Chicago: University of Chicago.

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