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Other People's Children

Delpit · 1995

testimony independent3 occurrences across 2 books · load 6

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P18 — The aim of elementary schooling is to induct every child into the shared knowledge and conventions of the adult public sphere; self-reali…

P23 — Equity requires commonality: advantaged children acquire the enabling knowledge at home, so only a school-imposed common curriculum can e…

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2010 · The Making of Americans

Lisa Delpit's insights on the necessity of explicit instruction for empowering minority students.

direct The failure to provide explicit instruction in the conventions of standard language and its accompanying knowledge is an abdication of a teacher's duty.

ch 4 · expert_testimony · the-making-of-americans:ch4_E8

Warrant (explicit): Withholding explicit instruction in the 'hidden' rules of the dominant culture from disadvantaged students deprives them of the tools necessary for equal competition.

could fail ifExplicit instruction in standard conventions might lead to the erasure of students' native dialects without necessarily guaranteeing increased economic opportunity.

2020 · How to Educate a Citizen

Lisa Delpit's analysis of how discovery learning fails students whose home culture does not match the school's 'print culture.'

direct The language of the American classroom is often meaningless to students whose background knowledge does not align with American print culture.

ch 4 · expert_testimony · how-to-educate-a-citizen:ch4_E29

Warrant (implicit): The efficacy of classroom instruction is contingent upon a match between the student's home-based cultural literacy and the school's linguistic expectations.

could fail ifStudents may be highly capable of learning new 'print culture' codes through immersion without needing their home culture to align with school culture beforehand.

Lisa Delpit's critique of constructivist methods for African American students.

direct Constructivist methods, such as discovery learning, are ineffective for African American and disadvantaged students who lack the shared knowledge of American print culture.

ch 4 · expert_testimony · how-to-educate-a-citizen:ch4_E30

Warrant (implicit): Methods that require students to 'discover' rules are biased against those who have not been pre-exposed to those rules through their social environment.

could fail ifConstructivist methods could theoretically empower disadvantaged students by teaching them the process of inquiry rather than just the facts they lack.

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Delpit, Lisa. 'Other People’s Children' (1995)
Delpit, Lisa. Other People’s Children.
Lisa Delpit, Other People's Children (1995)