NCREST
The Series on Cultural Interchange

Preface to the Series
Titles in the Series
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Building School-Family Partnerships in a South Bronx Classroom

David Bensman
YOU ARE HERE
Between Home and School: Cultural Interchange in an Elementary Classroom

Kathe Jervis

Contents

Introduction and Background

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Towards Conclusions

Bibliography

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Cultural Interchange in a Bronx High School: Three Children

Kemly A. McGregor
Reaching Out to Other People’s Children in an Urban Middle School: The Families’ Views

Jianzhong Xu
Grappling with Difference
14-minute video
Between Home and School:
Cultural Interchange in an Elementary Classroom

Kathe Jervis



Contents

Introduction and Background
Chapter 1 How Families Came to Know the Classroom
Chapter 2 The Theme of Diane’s Classroom:
“Living Together and Sharing Perspectives”
Chapter 3 Questions About Thinking in Racial and Ethnic “Types”
Chapter 4 Opening the Doors for New Thinking in Year Two
Chapter 5 Home: I Test All Practices by the Word of God
Chapter 6 Differing Perspectives
Towards Conclusions
Bibliography