New Directions in Teaching English (eBook, ePUB)

Reimagining Teaching, Teacher Education, and Research
Redaktion: Eidman-Aadah, Antero; Scherff, Elisa A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

New Directions in Teaching English: Reimagining Teaching, Teacher Education and Research attempts to create a comprehensive vision of critical and culturally relevant English teaching at the dawn of the 21st century. This book is multi-voiced. It includes perspectives from classroom teachers, teacher educators, and researchers in language and literacy, positioned to respond to recent changes in national conversations about literacy, learning, and assessment. These variously situated authors also recognize the rapidly changing demographics in schools, the changing nature of literacy in the digital age, and the increasing demands for literacy in the workplace. This book is critical. At all times education is a political act, and schools are embedded within a sociocultural reality that benefits some at the expense of others. Therefore the approach advocated through many of the chapters is one of critical literacy, where English students gain reading and writing skills and proficiency with digital technologies that allow them to become more able, discerning, and empowered consumers and producers of texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610486774
• Artikelnr.: 43813174

Autorenporträt

Ernest Morrell is the Macy Professor of English Education and director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). His interests include the teaching of English, critical media literacy, and urban teacher education. Lisa Scherff, currently a teacher at Estero High School (Florida), previously taught literacy education at the University of Tennessee, the University of Alabama, and Florida State University. Her research interests include opportunity to learn in the English/language arts, teacher preparation and development, and student-teacher discussions of young adult literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Section 1: Classroom Teaching
Chapter 1: Critical Multiliteracies Pedagogy in a Secondary English
Classroom
Jerica Coffey
Chapter 2: Cultural Relevance in the Modern Language Arts Classroom
Jose Paco Fiallos
Chapter 3: Distraction, Differentiation, & Socialization: English
Education, Pedagogy, and Literacy Acquisition in an Era of Social and
Mobile Media
Antero Garcia
Chapter 4: Towards a Literacy Continuum
Latrise P. Johnson and Maisha T. Winn
Chapter 5: Black and Latina/o Youth Linguistic Repertoires in Urban English
Language Arts Classroom
Danny C. Martinez
Section 2: Teacher Education
Chapter 6: Service Learning in New Spaces: Transforming Preservice Teachers
Lisa Scherff
Chapter 7: English Teacher Education for Rural Social Spaces
Leslie S. Rush
Chapter 8: Learning from Equity Audits: Powerful Social Justice in English
Education for the 21st Century
sj Miller
Section 3: Scholarship and Advocacy
Chapter 9: Critical Engagement through Digital Media Production: A Nexus of
Practice
Cynthia Lewis and Lauren Causey
Chapter 10: Digital Literacy Advocacy: A Rationale for Shifting Policy,
Infrastructure, and Instruction
Troy Hicks
Chapter 11: "Don't Say Gay": Using Action Research to Interrogate Language
Use in the English Classroom
Susan L. Groenke and Judson C. Laughter
Chapter 12: Practitioner Research in English Education
Patricia Lambert Stock
About the Contributors