Argues that adopting the bilingual model, teaching standard English, and encouraging students to cultivate their native dialects encourages diversity, individuality, creativity, and self-esteem while maintaining conventional standards. (SR)

Describes how instructors at two different colleges in Montana (a tribal college and a distant community college) collaboratively teach composition courses (using the same reading and assignments, and doing peer revision for each other). Describes how this approach breaks through cultural, ideological, intellectual "containments;"…