Place-based pedagogy, the incorporation of local dynamics into the classroom as a step toward bridging the school-community gap, is becoming increasingly popular as educating for sustainability gains traction in schools. However, little attention has been paid to the role Appalachia has played in creating our modern sense of place-based pedagogy…

Paris examines texts worn on objects (like clothing or backpacks), delivered over electronic media, and rapped by youth emcees at a multiethnic high school. He argues that these are identity texts, used by young people to express ethnic and linguistic differences. (Contains 2 figures and 7 notes.)

English as taught in city schools does not always reflect the Englishes city students travel with. Their urban English landscape is enriched by a procession of many voices that march in various directions in, around, and through the monuments of the city. These languages--Englishes, in this case--which have been traded on through various public…

Describes how and why four bidialectal methods for teaching Edited American English failed to be completely satisfactory. (DD)

Discusses the curriculum implications of recent research and linguistic theory on bidialectalism. (DD)

Black-oriented radio stations are a valuable resource for the white teacher needing familiarity with Black idioms. (JH)

Souto-Manning examines the role of classroom discourse analysis in helping to change a teacher's perceptions of English Language Learners from students who need "fixing" to experts from whom teachers may learn. She finds that blurring the lines between teacher/student and subject/object positions opens up pedagogical third spaces that are often…

Discusses the importance of dialect instruction along with materials and programs for teacher preparation. (RB)

"Bittersweet," a student-published quarterly about the Ozarks, provides the motivations and rewards in the Lebanon (Mo.) high school writing program. (JH)

Unless a teacher learns to foster humaneness, he or she is a failure. (JH)