Excerpts from "Cultivating Genius", Chapter 7 Selecting Historically Responsive Texts by David Philoxene https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z en-us 2022-09-14 20:16:01 UTC 2025-12-02 11:27:37 UTC hello@padlet.com "I like to think of textual lineages as my 'family tree of books and other texts.' We all remember certain movies, books poetry, works of art, and other books that have shaped our thinking and understanding of the world and ourselves. I think teachers should start with their own textual lineages of meaningful and significant literature and then look at their list to see how much they have impacted their teaching of their content area...I find teachers typically teach in ways that they were taught as children, even if that means teaching mostly European authors. They should write out the professional texts (articles, reports, books, essays) that helped to shape their teaching and pedagogical approaches." (147) dphiloxene https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297039230 2022-09-14 20:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297039230 "I define text as anything that can be read--both print and nonprint texts. Society members were also reading the world as texts (Freire & Macedo). They read images and social times as texts." (pg 138) dphiloxene https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297039548 2022-09-14 20:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297039548 "Students must see themselves in texts, including their cultures, identities, interests, experiences, desires, and future selves. Texts should teach multiple ideologies and perspectives...Examples of selected texts may include anthologies, picture books, primary source docs, historic newspapers, poetry, laws, TED Talks, short stories, current news articles, art, photographs and pictures from visiting different cultural sites, and resistance writings penned by leading thinkers and activists." (146) dphiloxene https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297039987 2022-09-14 20:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297039987 "Textbooks are not typically written to help with expanded goal for learning. We have to ask what texts can help our students accomplish. Texts should drive cognitive goals (skills and intellect) as well as critical analysis (criticality) and sociocultural goals (identity)." (pg.145) dphiloxene https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297040164 2022-09-14 20:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297040164 "Educators 'layer texts' when they teach and learn from multiple powerful and multimodal texts."....."Much like layering clothing to stay warm in cold temperatures and layer scents like perfumes, lotions, scrubs, body sprays, and so forth to smell better." (pg. 147) dphiloxene https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297040385 2022-09-14 20:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dphiloxene/px0jpe9f4s27541z/wish/2297040385