Book review | Education homework help
Book: Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
- Provides, the title, author(s) and a brief synopsis of the movie, documentary or book content
- Evaluate the author’s intentions. What is the author’s primary purpose? What does he or she hope to communicate to the viewer or reader?
- Highlight its key strengths and weaknesses
- Calls attention to its scholarly value and relationship to equity and social justice.
- Gives an opinion (See sample reflection questions below.)
Additionally, you will include a reflection that considers the following critical questions (You do not need to take each question individually and answer it.):
- What does this have to do with me?
- How could I explain these concepts to others (parents, students, peers, colleagues, etc.)?
- What emotions are conjured up as I read? What’s that about?
- What can I change about my practice, curricula, relationships, and policies?
- How can I use this to center my teaching on my most marginalized students?
- How does this connect with previous things I’ve learned?
- How much more is there to learn?
- Who can I share this with?
- How can I lead my peers in taking up this work?
