Towards Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Classroom Talk

Alexander, Robin John

Dialogos

Towards Dialogic Teaching

Alexander, R. J.

<p>With dialogue and dialogic teaching as upcoming buzz-words, we face a familiar mix of danger and opportunity. The opportunity is to transform classroom talk, increase pupil engagement, and lift literacy standards from their current plateau. The danger is that a powerful idea will be jargonised before it is even understood, let alone implemented, and that practice claiming to be dialogic will be little more than re-branded chalk and talk or ill-focused discussion. Dialogic teaching is about more than applying tips such as less hands-up bidding. It demands changes - in the handling of classroom space and time; in the balance of talk, reading and writing; in the relationship between speaker and listener; and in the content and dynamics of talk itself.</p>

ALEXANDER, ROBIN

Robin Alexander

This translation of Exile and Helplessness marks the introduction to the English-speaking world of Nabile Farès’ great trilogy, La Découverte du nouveau monde (The Discovery of the New World). An experimental work set in the time just after Algeria’s war with France, Exile and Helplessness probes issues of identity—race, gender, nationality—in the wake of European colonialism. The intensity and self-awareness of this work—in relation to both language and the existential urgency of its content—brings Nabile Farès’ writing closer to the white heat of poetry than to the narrative leisure of the novel. This is writing as enactment and not as mere representation. The immense pleasure in reading Farès’ work—a pleasure that shines through in Peter Thompson’s excellent translation—comes from the nomadicity of his language, the thinking and doing that happens at any given moment all over the place, if we let it. Let it happen to you; you’ll be the richer for it. —Pierre Joris, Editor of The University of California Book of North African Literature. “You have to learn to read between the lines of the sky, and of the tree, in the gaps that overflow with light and possibility.” Peter Thompson’s nimble and evocative translation brings to English readers the oracular intensity of Nabile Farès’ “multiple kind of speech.” Exile and Helplessness is a risky dialectic of prose and poetry, distance and rootedness, words and body, the politics of living and dying, of the female and the male, of liberation, anguish and ecstasy. —Adam J. Sorkin, translator of Ioan Flora’s Medea and Her War Machines

Exile and Helplessness: (L’Exil et le désarroi)

Literature & Fiction

Farès, Nabile

Literary

Inside America’s Pit; rebuilding Ground Zero… Below Zero is a collection of poems, haibun and haiku, written by architect Eduardo del Valle, beginning with his first day on the Ground Zero job site in 2007 and ending when the tower’s ground floor slab reached street level. The poems are inspired by a wide range of project experiences and events, all the complex emotions and activities going on in and about the site of reconstruction in the wake of one of America’s— and the World’s— greatest disasters. Del Valle’s architectural training and practice lend a unique vernacular and insight to the poems as they chronicle the progress of this monolithic undertaking.

Below Zero

Del Valle, Eduardo

Poetry

Immigrant Dreams & Alien Nightmares spans twenty-five years of José Torres-Tama’s verse in his unique bilingual voice. Labeled a “Permanent Resident Alien” when entering GringoLandia at age 7 in 1968, he explores the psychic, physical, and open wounds of an Ecuadorian immigrant balancing two languages and cultures—challenging the United States to realize its mythic ideals as the beacon of democracy. Inspired by writers like Ntozake Shange, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Martín Espada, his poems document migratory leaps from Guayaquil, Ecuador to New York City, where his family owned a coffee wagon business in Union Square, and Jersey City, where his teen-age rites of passage forged his urban warrior persona, to the Caribbean-influenced port city of New Orleans, his muse and adopted home since 1984. Praise for José Torres-Tama and Immigrant Dreams & Alien Nightmares Like the speaker in one of his poems, José Torres-Tama may well have “arrived like an immigrant toy with a distant tongue.” And the poems gathered here are a testament to his ability to wield that tongue in two languages, to make it dance for his readers both on the page and in the Out-Loud of performance for which he is so well known. Compiled over many years, Immigrant Dreams & Alien Nightmares is a book worth the wait. José Torres-Tama es un malabarista de palabras e imágenes, de mundos y realidades. Y estos poemas respiran el fuego. -Brenda Marie Osbey, author of History and Other Poems (Time Being Books, 2013), Distinguished Visiting Professor Department of Africana Studies, Brown University; Poet Laureate of Louisiana 2005-2007.

Alien Dreams and Immigrant Nightmares

Torres-Tama, José

<p>Winner of Cuba’s prestigious Premio Carpentier, this collection of eight inventive stories explores the pursuit of love and meaning in contemporary Cuba. One story takes you into a world of art and the marketplace, another into divination and the numbers racket, another into cooking and S&amp;M. These characters inhabit a real country full of contradictions and compulsions, far from our stereotyped images of nightclubs, beards, beaches and American cars. They are survivors, brought to us by a narrator who is sympathetic yet ironic, incisive yet serene.</p>

Vital Signs

de Jesús, Pedro

Poetry. Translated from the Polish by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman. "There is great sorrow in these later poems of the remarkable Polish poet and translator, Mieczysław Jastrun, whose great mastery of form and metaphysical thought are apparent throughout. The beauty of these spare lines and images both surprise and deepen the mystery of his complete engagement with experience: 'Chrysanthemums, purple / with anger, almost disappeared in shadow,' 'the cup extinguishes the drinker,' 'Ancient deaths / linger / in vineyard branches. / Are these not stony gorges? / Is nature dead? / Don't eat the bread / and the water isn't for drinking.' Experience for Jastrun was a matter of faith as well as intimate revelation, not to mention survival. These are truly extraordinary poems. Hats off to their translators, who have somehow managed to bring forth both his 'cold fire' and 'tree of sorrow / rooted deep in my heart.'"—Philip Schultz

Memorials: A Selection

Jastrun, Mieczysław

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Towards Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Classroom Talk

Towards Dialogic Teaching

Towards Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Classroom Talk

Towards Dialogic Teaching

Towards Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Classroom Talk

Exile and Helplessness: (L’Exil et le désarroi)

Below Zero

Alien Dreams and Immigrant Nightmares

Vital Signs

Memorials: A Selection