Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom

Authors

  • David Harris Kenneth Berezan University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/ajer.v59i2.55668

Abstract

Ingrid Johnston and Jyoti Mangat’s compact and comprehensive text, Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom, provides readers, educators, researchers, policy makers, and educational administrators invaluable insights into how difference in race, ethnicity, tradition, language, gender, class and power can be negotiated through the integration of postcolonial discourse and literature into English Language Arts classrooms.

Author Biography

David Harris Kenneth Berezan, University of Alberta

David H. K. Berezan, B.Ed., M.Ed., is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. As an educator and researcher, David believes that within the transformative powers of educational experience is the fundamental teaching/learning praxis that promotes growth, self-confidence, self-belief, and self-actualization. He has chosen a hybrid methodology including the fundamental elements of narrative inquiry, concepts of transformative learning theory, and documentary film techniques to discover what constitutes transformation within the fusion and synergy of teacher, students, and subject matter in the English Language Arts classroom. It is the selected mandate of his research to collect data and provide the meaningful analysis upon which he may extract findings from transformative experiences, and in the rendering, enlighten our profession with the knowledge and scholarship to enable educators to teach with greater potential for transformation each and every day of their careers for students and for themselves.

 

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Published

2014-04-15

How to Cite

Berezan, D. H. K. (2014). Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 59(2), 329–332. https://doi.org/10.11575/ajer.v59i2.55668

Issue

Vol. 59 No. 2 (2013): Summer

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BOOK REVIEWS

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