Through conversations with a teacher-researcher group and with Haitian teachers and parents in a day care center and child development class, the author learned about Haitian culture and realized that techniques teachers use to manage children's behavior are assumed to be universal, but are actually culturally based. (SK)

Explores a discussion in a bilingual education class of Haitian students where a non-teacher-directed discussion format and an emphasis on the students' own questions encourage the use of the students' everyday ways of talking and exploring ideas. The article's analysis of a discussion shows what and how the students are learning in this context.…

This book details the experiences of a teacher in a Haitian-populated preschool in an urban area of the United States, focusing on the development of literacy and English as a second language. An introductory chapter describes the children, some of their personal and cultural background, their classroom demeanor, and the context in which they were…