1st Edition

Legacies of Christian Languaging and Literacies in American Education Perspectives on English Language Arts Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning

268 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Because spiritual life and religious participation are widespread human and cultural phenomena, these experiences unsurprisingly find their way into English language arts curriculum, learning, teaching, and teacher education work. Yet many public school literacy teachers and secondary teacher educators feel unsure how to engage religious and spiritual topics and responses in their classrooms.... Read more

01 Contributor Bio





02 Acknowledgements





03 Foreword





04 Introduction: Legacies of Christian Languaging and Literacies in American Education



Mary M. Juzwik, Kevin J. Burke, Jennifer C. Stone, and Denise Dávila





1.0 Section 1



Babel: Conversation, Conflict, and Contested Terrains of Schooling



Jennifer C. Stone, Editor





1.1, Chapter 1, "Real Religion": The Roles of Knowledge, Dialogue, and Sense-Making in Coming to a Faith



Allison Skerrett





1.2, Chapter 2, Recognizing Religion with Preservice Teachers



Heidi Hadley and Will Fassbender





1.3, Chapter 3, Institutional Rituals as Interpersonal Verbal Rituals as Interactional Resources in Classroom Talk



Robert LeBlanc





2.0 Section 2



Purity: Making Present the Stranger



Kevin J. Burke, Editor





2.1, Chapter 4, Myth and Christian Reading Practice in English Teaching



Scott Jarvie





2.2, Chapter 5, "Racism is a God-damned thing": The Implications of Historical and Contemporary Catholic Racism for ELA Classrooms



Mary L. Neville





2.3, Chapter 6, Regulating Language: Language Policies of Early American Christian Missions in Alaska



Jennifer C. Stone, Samantha Mack, Jacob D. Holley-Kline, and Mitchell Hoback





2.4, Chapter 7, A Dream Come True: Young Evangelical Womens’ Negotiations of Dreams, Reality, and Ideologies on Pinterest



Bree Straayer-Gannon





3.0 Section 3



Wisdom: Loving God, Loving our Neighbors, and Engaging Religious Pluralism through Literary Response



Mary M. Juzwik, Editor





3.1, Chapter 8, Entering into Literary Communion: Nourishing the Soul and Reclaiming Mystery through Reading



Kati Macaluso





3.2, Chapter 9, "Love your Neighbor": LGBTQ Social Justice and the Youth Canon of WWII Literature



Denise Dávila and Elouise E. Epstein





3.3., Chapter 10, Disrupting Protestant Dominion: Middle School Affirmations of Diverse Religious Images in Community Spaces



Denise Dávila and Allison Volz





4.0 Section 4



Resurrection



Denise Davila, Editor





4.1, Chapter 11, Ambivalence in Two Parts: Legacies of Catholic Languaging



Adam J. Greteman





4.2, Chapter 12, Multilingual, Multimodal, and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Two Young Cuban-American Women’s Religious Literacies



Natasha Perez





4.3, Chapter 13, I had to die to live again: A racial storytelling of a Black Male English Educator’s Spiritual Literacies and Practices



Lamar L. Johnson





4.4, Chapter 14, (Re)Mystifying Literary Pedagogy



Mary M. Juzwik





Afterword

Biography

Mary M. Juzwik is Professor in the departments of Teacher Education and English at Michigan State University, USA.



Jennifer C. Stone is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA.



Kevin J. Burke is Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, USA.



Denise Dávila is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Children’s Literature in the Language and Literacy Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.