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Publication Date: 2002-Sep
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Becoming a Narrative Inquirer in a Multicultural Landscape
Phillion, JoAnn
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v34 n5 p535-556 Sep 2002
This is the last of three papers based on a 20-month study of teaching and learning in a diverse classroom in a downtown community school in Toronto, Canada. The purpose of the research was to describe the details of teaching and learning in a multicultural classroom and to document successful strategies in working with immigrant and minority students. The three papers detail the process by which this focus on classroom life led to a critique of the literature and to a new way to think about multicultural teaching and learning which I call narrative multiculturalism. In this paper, I explore the process of becoming a narrative inquirer in a multicultural landscape and the implications of this way of thinking on developing new kinds of understanding. I relate this experientially oriented work to new ethnographies and other work already finding its way into the field. I explore a narrative multicultural way of thinking in greater depth. I use my own work with a teacher participant to re-imagine multicultural life in schools and classrooms. The study demonstrates the potential contribution of narrative multiculturalism to understanding multicultural life and multicultural teaching and learning. (Contains 6 notes.)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Community Schools, Multicultural Education, Inquiry, Personal Narratives, Ethnography, English (Second Language)
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