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Examines assumptions about literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used historically both to empower and to oppress. This book focuses on African American middle and secondary students as a population that has experienced the consequences of inequality. It demonstrates general and specific applications to other populations.
Beyond Grammar asks readers to think about the power of words, the power of language attitudes, and the power of language policies as they play out in communities, in educational institutions, and in their own lives as individuals, teachers, and p
Advocating an effective pedagogy that puts a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners¿ primary and target languages.
Advocating an effective pedagogy that puts a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners¿ primary and target languages.
Exploring the ways in which language comprises the implicit or explicit curriculum of teaching and learning in multicultural science settings, this book highlights the challenges faced specifically by ethnic- and linguistic- 'minority' students and their teachers in joining those communities.
Examines popular assumptions about literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used historically both to empower and to oppress. The authors offer an alternative view of literacy - a 'literacy of promise' - that charts an emancipatory agenda for literacy instructional practices in schools.
This text provides preservice and in-service teachers with a model for engaging in effective instruction with the variety of students encountered in college English as a second language or foreign language classrooms. The approach is based on the principles of Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy.
Assessment plays a powerful role in the process of education in the US and has a disproportionately negative impact on students who do not come from middle-class backgrounds. This guide looks at the issues in educational assessment and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement valid assessments for use in classrooms.
Helps education professionals understand the educational/societal situations they are dealing with, and literacy instruction and second language learning in particular contexts. This third edition progressively works through differences and tensions in the discourses and practices of sociolinguistics, bilingual education, whole language, and more.
This guide for educators looks at major issues in language testing and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement assessments for use in classrooms that maximize fairness and validity for all students.
Explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. This title is suitable for pre-service and in-service courses globally in English and language arts education.
Presents a philosophical shift for teaching literature, constructing curriculum, and taking up issues of diversity and social justice. This book problematizes children's literature, offers a way of reading power, explores the complex web of sociopolitical relations, and deconstructs assumptions about language, meaning, reading, and literature.
Contributes to scholarship on the role of language in developing classroom scientific communities of practice, expands that work by highlighting the challenges faced by ethnic - and linguistic - 'minority' students and their teachers in joining those communities, and showcases teaching and research initiatives for helping to meet these challenges.
Offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author's work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. This book weaves together the theory and practice. It begins by arguing for a broader definition of the "critical" in critical literacy.
This text is designed for teachers of children who do not speak English as a first language. It explores the findings from a four-year case study of a Canadian high school with a large number of immigrant students from Hong Kong and describes how their teachers negotiated the issues that arose.
Janks shows how competing orientations to critical literacy education - power, access, diversity, design - foreground one over the other. Her central argument is that these different orientations are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create new possibilities.
Janks shows how competing orientations to critical literacy education - power, access, diversity, design - foreground one over the other. Her central argument is that these different orientations are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create new possibilities.
Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, this book shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families.
Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, this book shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families.
Bringing a critical lens to the study of multiculturalism in children's literature, this book prepares teachers, teacher educators, and researchers of children's literature to analyze the ideological dimensions of reading and studying literature. It provides chapters that include recommendations for classroom application and classroom research.
Useful for pre-service and practicing teachers, this text addresses how teachers can alert students to the realities of language and power. It deals with language issues that affect students in classrooms: the political nature of language, the power of words, hate language and bullying, gender and language, dialects, and language policies.
First-year college composition textbook features a series of recursive assignments that allow students to research & write about issues confronting their individual communities. Covers the basics of the course (the writing process).
Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, this text illustrates: real-life dilemmas about diversity that teachers face in their own classrooms; ideas about how language, culture, and teaching are linked; and, ways to engage with these ideas.
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