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Christopher Emdin

@chris_e310

"Drawing on his own experience feeling undervalued and invisible in schools..this book offers a new lens on/approach to teaching and learning in urban schools."

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When students are charged with preserving, capturing, and sharing their experiences in the school, teaching and learning becomes dialogic.

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For the neoindiginous, the word battle means being a part of an event where one has to be at his or her best and prepared to be challenged.

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There is a direct correlation between the time spent actively engaging in students' communities and the time spent actively engaged in class

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Social capital and dense networks facilitate trust and cooperation, and can have either positive or negative effects on individuals

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The teacher spends the year fighting against communal practices that bring students together but which are seen by the teacher as disruptive

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To be in touch with the community one has to enter into the physical places & work to be invited into the emotional spaces the youth inhabit

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When the indigenous & neoindigenous are silenced they tend to respond to the denial of their voices by showcasing culture in vivid ways