1st Edition

Designing Critical Literacy Education through Critical Discourse Analysis Pedagogical and Research Tools for Teacher-Researchers

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book invites teacher educators, literacy researchers, and discourse analysts to consider how discourse analysis can be used to foster critical literacy education. It is both a guide for conducting critical discourse analysis and a look at how the authors, alongside their teacher education students, used... Read more

Preface 1. Designing Critical Literacy Education through Critical Discourse Analysis 2. Inside the Design of our Teaching and Research 3. Narrating Literacy, Identity and Culture: Narrative Analysis 4. Inquiry into Linguistic Diversity: Discourse Analysis through the Building Tasks 5. Developing Racial Literacy: Critical Discourse Analysis 6. Performing Literacy: Multimodal Discourse Analysis 7. Conclusions

Biography

Rebecca Rogers is Professor of Literacy Education and Discourse Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA.

Melissa Mosley Wetzel is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

"The authors offer a 'multi-layered text': if readers are interested in critical literacy or teacher research they should 'read the book'; if readers are 'short on time' to learn how to do critical discourse analysis they should 'read the appendices'. This blend of theory and practice should be welcomed by new teachers, who always want to know what to do and how to do it, as well as veteran teachers, who realize the necessity of theory to understanding. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections." - R.R. Sherman, emeritus, University of Florida, in CHOICE, April 2014