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The need for story : cultural diversity in classroom and community / edited by Anne Haas Dyson, Celia Genishi.

Dyson, Anne Haas. (Added Author). Genishi, Celia, 1944- (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 0814133002 :
  • Physical Description: vii, 259 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
  • Publisher: Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c1994.

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General Note: "NCTE stock number: 33002"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction : the need for story / Anne Haas Dyson, Celia Genishi -- Connections between story, self, and others : why do we tell stories? Multiculturalism, community, and the arts / Maxine Greene -- Life as narrative / Jerome Bruner -- The power of personal storytelling in families and kindergartens / Peggy J. Miller, Robert A. Mehler -- Ways with stories : whose stories are told? Whose stories are heard? Multicultural literature for children : towards a clarification of the concept / Mingshui Cai, Rudine Sims Bishop -- What is sharing time for? / Courtney B. Cazden -- "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice" : African American student writers / Geneva Smitherman -- Gender differences and symbolic imagination in the stories of four-year-olds / Ageliki Nicolopoulou, Barbara Scales, Jeff Weintraub -- "And they lived happily ever after" : cultural storylines and the construction of gender / Pam Gilbert -- Weaving communities through story : who are we? Princess Annabella and the black girls / Vivian Gussin Paley -- "I'm gonna express myself" : the politics of story in the children's world / Anne Haas Dyson -- "All the things that mattered" : stories written by teachers for children / Sal Vascellaro, Celia Genishi -- The contribution of the preschool to a native American community / Susan J. Britsch -- Stories as ways of acting together / Shirley Brice Heath -- Writing as a foundation for transformative community in the Tenderloin / Carol E. Heller -- Conclusion : fulfilling the need for story / Celia Genishi, Anne Haas Dyson.

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