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Blazar, David – English Education, 2011
The author shares his experiences teaching a unit based on the Broadway musical "In the Heights" as a way of engaging the cultural identity of his students, mainly Dominican Americans. The unit he created around the musical was initially built in an effort to make Dominican culture overt in the classroom, fulfilling pedagogical ideas…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Latin Americans, Musical Composition, Theaters