Elizabeth Fletcher

Dr. Orr
CIED 1003
9 September 2016
Google Scholar Assignment
1. Freddie Bowles (also Nancy P. Gallavan and Christopher T. Young),
Learning to Write and Writing to Learn: Insight from Teacher
Candidates, 2012
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01626620.2007.1046344
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2. Freddie Bowles (also Nancy P. Gallavan), RESPECTing Culture with All
Learners, 2011 http://www.socstrpr.org/wpcontent/uploads/2011/12/ms06374_Bowles-9.pdf
3. Freddie Bowles, TransformationMore Than Meets the Eye: Teacher
Candidates Journeys to Cultural Competence, 2012
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01626620.2011.627048

Freddie Bowles and Nancy P. Gallavans article, Culture with All Learners,
discusses teaching students culture through the book The Sneetches by Dr.
Seuss. Gallavan and Bowles offer a four step process for teaching children
the importance of culture. Culture studies are vital in the teaching world
since most students first experience varying cultures in elementary school,
and with 42% of young Americans living in a home where more than one
language is spoken, the likely-hood of children running into someone

different than them in school is only growing. This article specifically focuses
on third through fifth grade.
The four-part learning experience is focused around the word respect,
an acronym for reality; exploration; senses, sensitivities, and sensibilities;
people; equity; care; talk. The first part of the program walks through a chart
using the acronym and then asks What We Know Now, What We Want to
Learn, What We Have Learned, and How Did We Learn. This chart allows
students to evaluate how they grow through the experience. The second step
goes through the Dr. Seuss book, The Sneetches. This classic childhood story
features sneetches who have stars on their bellies and the way they shun the
sneetches who do not. This story helps children realize, unity is our goal, as
the sneetches do at the end of the story. The other portion to the second part
of the learning experience is the Culture Wheel. The Culture Wheel is a
diagram that is passed out to all of the students in the class that includes all
the different portions of things that make up and define a culture. In the third
part of this experience, students learn The Power of Language.
The third part has children create a t-chart with one side being words
that mean unfair and words that mean fair. This makes children explore the
meanings of these words and how important their weight is. The fourth and
last part of this learning experience is a Simulation Related to Power and
Respect. Students will play a game in which they receive stars just like the
sneetches, however different stars have different privileges. The ultimate
goal at the end is for the student to receive a multicolored star. However,

students realize through this simulation what privilege is and how unfair it
can be for people to be treated differently because of their culture. This four
step learning experiences goal is that students will learn in a honest,
natural, authentic, and holistic way.