1st Edition

Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses Critical Issues and Challenges for Teacher Educators in Top-Down Times

Edited By Jory Brass, Allen Webb Copyright 2015
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses showcases innovative work in teacher education that fosters teachers’ capacities as reflective practitioners and public intellectuals; extends traditional boundaries of methods courses on teaching the English language arts, literacy, children’s and young adult literature; and embodies democratic and critical politics that go beyond the reductive... Read more

Contents
Preface 
1. Reconstituting Teacher Education: Literacy, Critical Theories, and English
Jory Brass
2. A Critical Sociocultural Approach to English Education
Cynthia Lewis, Tracey Pyscher, Erin Stutelberg
3. Towards Critical Participatory Literacies through Digital Video Composition in an Elementary Literacy Capstone Course
Jessica Zacher Pandya
4. Digital/Media Literacies in a Media Literacy and a Digital Writing Methods Course
Richard Beach
5. Performance Pedagogies in Literacy Methods: Emergence, Embodiment, and Critical Practices
Carmen Liliana Medina, Linda Skidmore Coggin, Gustave John Weltsek 
6. Working toward Dialogically Organized Instruction through Video-Based Response and  Revision
Samantha Caughlan and Mary M. Juzwik
7. A Critical Resource Orientation to Literacy Assessment through a Stance of Solidarity
Gerald Campano, Katrina Bartow Jacobs, Lan Ngo
8. Communities of Practice: Bridging the Gap between Methods Courses and Secondary Schools
James Cercone
9. Synthesizing Formal and Experiential Concepts in a Service-Learning Course
Peter Smagorinsky, Lindy L. Johnson, Christopher M. Clayton
10. Generative Critical Pedagogy in English Language Arts Methods for Urban Schools
Tonya Perry
11. Learning to Teach Diverse Learners in a Writing Pedagogies Class
Joyce Meier, Yunjeong Choi, Ellen Cushman
12. A Trauma Studies Lens on Writing Methods: Crafting a Critical, Affective, Practice-Based Pedagogy
Elizabeth Dutro, Ashley Cartun
13. Critical Literary Theory in a Literature Methods Class
Deborah Appleman
14. A Cultural Studies Approach to Literature Methods
Allen Webb
15. Talking Policy in a Language Arts Curriculum Course for Reading Specialists
Patrick Shannon
Contributors
Index

Biography

Jory Brass is Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, USA.

Allen Webb is Professor of English Education and Postcolonial Studies, Western Michigan University, USA.