Teaching Harry Potter : the power of imagination in multicultural classrooms

Teaching Harry Potter : the power of imagination in multicultural classrooms / Catherine L. Belcher and Becky Herr Stephenson.

Given the current educational climate of high stakes testing, standardized curriculum, and "approved" reading lists, incorporating unauthorized, often controversial, popular literature into the classroom becomes a political choice. The authors examine why teachers choose to read Harry Pott...

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Main Author: Belcher, Catherine L., 1968-
Other Authors: Herr-Stephenson, Becky
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Secondary education in a changing world.
Subjects:
Rowling, J. K. > Study and teaching > Case studies.
Popular literature > Study and teaching > Case studies.
Multicultural education > California > Case studies.
Creative teaching > Case studies.
Critical pedagogy > United States.
Education and state > United States.
Case studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why Harry?
  • Defending the (not really) Dark Arts: teaching to break the DADA curse
  • Harry on the border between two worlds: reading Harry en Español in a Mexican American border community
  • Harry in the classroom: waking sleeping dragons
  • Harry Potter and the Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum: teaching AP English in an urban charter high school
  • Old magic, new technologies
  • Entering the forbidden forest: teaching fiction and fantasy in urban special education
  • Imagining more.

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