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Teaching English today : advocating change in the secondary curriculum / Barrie R.C. Barrell ... [and others] editors ; foreword by Patrick Shannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
- Language and literacy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
- English language.
- English language--Study and teaching (Secondary).
- Language arts (Secondary)--Curricula.
- Language arts (Secondary).
- United States.
- English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Canada.
- Language arts (Secondary)--Curricula--United States.
- Language arts (Secondary)--Curricula--Canada.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 158 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This book offers a rare examination of the secondary English curriculum, focusing on current trends and looking pragmatically at reform initiatives. Providing both a review and a heads-up about what's new--or what should be new--in English classrooms, this accessible text: Features essays from well-known educators and researchers, in the United States and Canada, who provide insight and offer a wide range of perspectives on today's secondary English language arts education. Challenges the field to re-conceptualize its purpose and value while urging language arts educators to rethink their practice. Focuses on contemporary issues, including assessment, multiculturalism, critical literacy, expanding definitions of text and literacy, technology in the classroom, censorship, the power of mass media, and much more. Raises pertinent questions about mandated curricula, high-stakes testing, conventional teaching practices, and teacher preparation.
- Contents:
- Chat room musings: English teaching in a changing world / Gordon M. Pradl and John S. Mayher
- A history not yet past: where then is here? / John Willinsky
- Uncertain relations: English and cultural studies / Robert Morgan
- Passionate contracts: discursive contradiction and struggle in secondary English teacher education programs / Ursula A. Kelly
- "Words is Changin' every day": language and literacy in the urban contact zone / Maryann Dickar
- Tightrope walkers: the balancing and unbalancing act of teaching writing / Jill Kedersha McClay
- "Trying to bend the tree when it is already grown": spanning the spectrum of African Diaspora Englishes in the college writing classroom / Carmen Kynard
- Developing critical responses to stories in many media / Margaret Mackey
- Words and windows: using technology for critical literacy / Roberta F. Hammett
- Context, text, and tests: issues in English assessment in the United States / Sarah W. Beck.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807744786
- 0807744778
- OCLC:
- 54103889
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