Blog#2 Lisa Delpit’s “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children” (Quote - Connection)
Blog#2 Lisa Delpit’s “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children” (Quote - Connection) “Children have the right to their own language, their own culture.” This quote resonated with me in many different levels and aspects of my profession and my own life. Therefore, from my perspective of a foreign student and a teacher of mostly Hispanic students, I had many connections to the text and I concluded that I agree with the correlation of teacher-student cultural language alignment and instructional efficacy. As a college student and newly second language learner (as the example of the Native American college student girl), I have struggled to find help on learning not only the language, but also the “Formal English” necessary during my college years. As a result, I was left alone on that journey, yet inspired and pushed by my cultural background of relentless strive for achievement. Once I became a teacher in my own country, I...
