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Week Two: From Quantitative to Qualitative
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From: K.T. Horning <horning_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:40:53 -0600
Thanks, all, for the amazingly thoughtful, deep, and civil discussion of multicultural literature these past 10 days. Every day I open up my in-box to lots of thought-provoking reading.
Charles Bayless referred to this as a "wonderfully hydra-headed conversation," and it has been that. This is obviously a topic people feel passionate about. I have been in discussions of multicultural literature in the past where people have shouted, cried, gotten angry, stormed out. Emotions can run high when we're asked to examine long-held beliefs and do some soul searching. They can also run high when we feel we have been having this same conversation for 40 years, and nothing ever changes.
Sarah Hamburg, who just joined our group (welcome, Sarah!), posted the following:
> I don't think we can have the conversation about the numerical issues
> of inclusion and representation-- which is certainly an imperative
> one!-- without talking about this larger cultural question as well. If
> there is a lack of space within the field for voices to raise
> questions, or to speak against a dominant narrative-- or if the
> stories we are honoring are ones that erase other voices, and that
> affirm a single, dominant narrative, then what does it mean to say we
> are a community looking to invite a diversity of voices to the table?
>
And Debbie Reese responded to her with a post that offered a personal dimension, and challenged us to close the safe distance that the quantitative analysis puts between us. In the past 24 hours you have been doing just that -- naturally moving from the quantitative analysis to the qualitative, using books like "Little House on the Prairie" as a touchstone.
Next week we will move into a discussion of two recent books by Native authors. We'll start on February 17 with a discussion of "How I Became a Ghost" by Tim Tingle, published by The Roadrunner Press in 2013. It just won the 2014 American Indian Youth Literature Award in the Middle School category. It's a fascinating historical novel, with a great deal of appeal for young readers. If you haven't to read it yet, I encourage you to seek it out. If you can't find it in your library, here's your chance to answer Alexis DeVeaux's call to action ("Buying a book is a political act."). Later next week, Tim Tingle himself will be joining our discussion so this will be your chance to ask him any questions you have about "How I Became a Ghost" or his work in general. The following week we'll discuss "If I Ever Get Out of Here," the debut novel of a great new author, Eric Gansworth, published by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic in 2013. And Eric will also be joining our discussion the last week in February.
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--KT (horning_at_education.wisc.edu)
>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:40:53 -0600
Thanks, all, for the amazingly thoughtful, deep, and civil discussion of multicultural literature these past 10 days. Every day I open up my in-box to lots of thought-provoking reading.
Charles Bayless referred to this as a "wonderfully hydra-headed conversation," and it has been that. This is obviously a topic people feel passionate about. I have been in discussions of multicultural literature in the past where people have shouted, cried, gotten angry, stormed out. Emotions can run high when we're asked to examine long-held beliefs and do some soul searching. They can also run high when we feel we have been having this same conversation for 40 years, and nothing ever changes.
Sarah Hamburg, who just joined our group (welcome, Sarah!), posted the following:
> I don't think we can have the conversation about the numerical issues
> of inclusion and representation-- which is certainly an imperative
> one!-- without talking about this larger cultural question as well. If
> there is a lack of space within the field for voices to raise
> questions, or to speak against a dominant narrative-- or if the
> stories we are honoring are ones that erase other voices, and that
> affirm a single, dominant narrative, then what does it mean to say we
> are a community looking to invite a diversity of voices to the table?
>
And Debbie Reese responded to her with a post that offered a personal dimension, and challenged us to close the safe distance that the quantitative analysis puts between us. In the past 24 hours you have been doing just that -- naturally moving from the quantitative analysis to the qualitative, using books like "Little House on the Prairie" as a touchstone.
Next week we will move into a discussion of two recent books by Native authors. We'll start on February 17 with a discussion of "How I Became a Ghost" by Tim Tingle, published by The Roadrunner Press in 2013. It just won the 2014 American Indian Youth Literature Award in the Middle School category. It's a fascinating historical novel, with a great deal of appeal for young readers. If you haven't to read it yet, I encourage you to seek it out. If you can't find it in your library, here's your chance to answer Alexis DeVeaux's call to action ("Buying a book is a political act."). Later next week, Tim Tingle himself will be joining our discussion so this will be your chance to ask him any questions you have about "How I Became a Ghost" or his work in general. The following week we'll discuss "If I Ever Get Out of Here," the debut novel of a great new author, Eric Gansworth, published by Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic in 2013. And Eric will also be joining our discussion the last week in February.
And a few housekeeping notes:
1) We are seeing quite an increase in the number of messages on this listserv. If you would prefer to get the digest version, so you get just one long message every day, with all the messages compiled, send a message to _ccbc-net-request_at_lists.wisc.edu___and include only this command in the body of the message: *set ccbc-net digest *-- If you have any trouble with getting digest set up, write me off list at horning_at_education.wisc.edu and I can do it for you.
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--KT (horning_at_education.wisc.edu)
>
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