Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching

by Anchor Thieves

Overview

Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences. Using case studies of educational initiatives on behalf of African American women, Native American children, and the urban poor, Learning Legacies promotes the importance of knowledge grounded in the histories and cultures of the many racial and ethnic groups that have always comprised America’s populace, underscoring the value of rich cultural knowledge in pedagogy by illustrating how creative teachers still draw on these learning legacies today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780472122844
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	05/31/2017
Series:	New Public Scholarship
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sarah Ruffing Robbins is a Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at Texas Christian University.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments One: Introduction: Counter-narratives and Cultural Stewardship Two: “That my work may speak well for Spelman”: Messengers Recording History and Performing Uplift Three: Collaborative Writing as Jane Addams’s Hull-House Legacy Four: Reclaiming Voices from Indian Boarding School Narratives Five: Learning from Natives’ Cross-Cultural Teaching Coda: Composing New Learning Legacies Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

“Robbins pushes the envelope on the normative uses and perspectives about the Archive, using literal archives of educational practice recorded in counter-narratives from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Educators will find value in using this book to help train emerging teachers to be reflective about their practice and for models of how to use texts, archives, and stories as powerful teaching tools . . . ”
—Timothy K. Eatman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Syracuse University, Faculty Co-director Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life

“[Learning Legacies] combines knowledge about teacher training and the history of education in the United States gained from extensive research into many formal archives, numerous site visits, and interviews with educators, archivists and others.  Robbins’s own autoethnographic reflections also form a crucial and welcome element of her research.”
—Sandra A. Zagarell, Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College and scholar of American Literature and Culture

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