New Directions in Teaching English: Reimagining Teaching, Teacher Education, and Research

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.

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• Pose, Wobble, Flow: A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction (Language and Literacy Series)
• Teaching English by Design: How to Create and Carry Out Instructional Units
• Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom
• Transformative Teachers: Teacher Leadership and Learning in a Connected World
• Write Like This: Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling and Mentor Texts
• Doing Critical Literacy: Texts and Activities for Students and Teachers (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)
• Critical Media Pedagogy: Teaching for Achievement in City Schools (Language and Literacy Series)
• In the Best Interest of Students: Staying True to What Works in the ELA Classroom
• Critical Literacy and Urban Youth: Pedagogies of Access, Dissent, and Liberation (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)