An goen tu tro Rakxs, or, Whose Language is it Anyway?
I recently picked up a copy of Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson’s Children, Language, and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times from the library. This book caught my eye as I was browsing the stacks, the title suggesting that its pages might help me grapple with some of the questions I’ve encountered this past school year while working with young learners. As I read chapter two, “Standardized Language, Standardized Childhood,” I began to search for examples of what Genishi and Dyson described in my own experience....