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Angelenos: A Bilingual Collection of Poetry and Prose | 
| Author: Students Of Downtown Los Angeles
Publisher: Milligan Books, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1434494
Media: Paperback
Edition: Bilingual
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 428
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0981578330
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780981578330
ASIN: 0981578330
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
At the Los Angeles School of Global Studies, the freshman class began the school year with a goal to share their life experiences with the world. To read their work is to live through their struggles: from the traditional tears of teenage heartbreak to poignant tales of estranged families and violent neighborhoods. Above all, you will find a sense of hope, unity, and rejuvenation from the words of these talented young Americans. En la Escuela de Estudios Globales de Los Angeles, los estudiantes del noveno grado comenzaron el ano escolar con una meta: compartir las experiencias de sus vidas con el mundo. Leer sus escritos, es vivir sus luchas que van desde las lagrimas tradicionales de los corazones rotos de los adolescentes hasta la exasperadas historias de separacion de las familias y los vecindarios violentos. Sobretodo, encontrara un espiritu de esperanza, unidad, y rejuvenecimiento en las palabras de estos jovenes americanos talentosos
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Just what we need October 5, 2008
This book is admirable and exemplary. It follows the fundamental lines we have to follow if we want to integrate all ethnic populations, understood as different in origins from the majority group, and all minority groups in any society. It is to propose them a project in which they will find their motivations. Motivation is the basic element that can dynamize such young people. The first motivation is to assume their past in a critical way, not to reject it, not to feel guilty about it but to understand the role it played in their past as a blocking element, or a restrictive element, or an inspiring element, and turn it into a pure inspiration for the future. Since these young people have been what they have been, they are going to be what their past is going to create and inspire in their future. It is when they state that continuity that they can change it, not reject it, not break it, but continue developing it in a more positive and valorized way. The second dimension is that they are responsible for their future and their past is no excuse for not assuming that responsibility. Let bygones be bygones and the best way to do so is to develop a project in which all students can partake and learn as well as teach. It is important the students become the actors of their own personal learning and the actors, hence the teachers, of their school mates' and class mates' learning. The gathering and acquiring and assimilating of knowledge by everyone in the class and school is the responsibility of everyone, every student and every teacher alike, and that can only come through a conscious effort, and we are speaking of effort, and that has to be productive and creative: it must produce something that has a value because it has been created by the students' work and effort. That's what task pedagogy and project pedagogy is all about. We could use a simple image: if you want to sit, just make a chair for yourself with your own hands and your own work. And buying a ready-made one in some supermarket is just a vanity: you will sit on it for sure but you will have no pride in it because you did not make it. If you want to be proud of your life, make it worth being proud of it and stop accusing people or society of making your life unbearable and catastrophic. Finally the school proposes a project that is preparing the students for the 21st century, for the future. It is not based on making the students acquire an established knowledge about the past or the present but building a knowledge about the future and first of all by having the tools of the future at their disposals, computers and Information Technology. When they are plugged onto the communication of this immense globalized network they can envisage conquering the future. And there we find the first two ideas again. To conquer the future you must be proud of your roots and even your past, no matter what it has been. Proud does not mean be uncritical, but proud means assume it all and make it the yeast of the future. And then you have to consider the future as a project, both personal and collective, and a project requires an effort, hard work and a lot of self pride and self reliance. This book is showing how such qualities can be built in young people. They have to get rid of all self pity they may have felt before. Self pity is the poison of any attempt at improving your lot. That is true all over the world and that is true particularly in the countries where a majority of people are from one culture and a minority, or minorities, are from another culture, or other cultures. This situation is universal and the coming decades will increase that problematic because people are going to move from one country to the next more than ever for professional, commercial, educational or cultural reasons. And do not dream of genetically mixing these cultures to produce a mixed-blood culture. People are supposed to assume their biculturalism, bilingualism if not multiculturalism and multilingualism in a society that encourages it. It is not by building some kind of lingua franca among cultures that we will improve the situation and confront the challenge. It is by accepting what others are and what we are entirely and by acquiring the cultures of our neighbors that we will be up to the globalized world of tomorrow. The future is not in Mickey Mouse of all but it is in multicultural education and multicultural life for all.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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