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  • Teaching Literature to Adolescents

    In its fifth edition, this popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms.This new edition features updated chapters that incorporate critical race theory, perspectives on teaching fiction, nonfiction, and drama, the integration of digital literacy, working with English Language Learners, and ... Read more

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  • Writing in the Dialogical Classroom

    Students and Teachers Responding to the Texts of Their Lives

    by Bob Fecho ...
    Series series Principles in Practice
    In the dialogical classroom, students use writing to explore who they are becoming and how they relate to the larger culture around them. Dialogical writing combines academic and personal writing; allows writers to bring multiple voices to the work; Involves thought, reflection, and engagement across time and space; and creates opportunities for substantive and ongoing meaning making. How can we, ... Read more

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  • Teaching for the Students

    Habits of Heart, Mind, and Practice in the Engaged Classroom

    by Bob Fecho ...
    “In this age of unparalleled accountability, our students seem to get lost in the shuffle of standards-driven curricula and other external factors. . . . Have we forgotten what authentic teaching and learning look and sound like? Have we forgotten that students must always be at the center of our teaching? Bob Fecho hasn’t, and this beautiful and thought-provoking book is proof.” —From the ... Read more

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  • Novice Teachers Embracing Wobble in Standardized Schools

    Using Dialogue and Inquiry for Self-Reflection and Growth

    A critical resource for pre-service and practicing teachers, this book addresses what happens when new teachers try to enact inquiry-based and dialogical pedagogy within standardized schools. Exploring the narratives from beginning ELA and humanities teachers when they encounter challenges and obstructions, this book explores moments of wobble—key events that called attention to practice in the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Two Years in the Lives of Two English Teachers

    To Be, To Do, To Become

    This book invites readers to explore the complexity of becoming a teacher through the stories of two novice ELA teachers, Emelio and Rachel, over the course of their first two years. The authors’ detailed, empathetic, and ethnographic approach allows space for the teachers to reveal little-seen and often overlooked "wobble moments." These moments illuminate the complexity and nuances that confront ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Teaching Literature to Adolescents

    Now in its fourth edition, this popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. This new edition broadens its focus to cover important topics such as critical race theory; perspectives on teaching fiction, nonfiction, and drama; the integration of digital literacy; and teacher research for ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Is This English? Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom

    by Bob Fecho ...
    Series series Practitioner Inquiry Series
    This is the story of a white high school English teacher, Bob Fecho, and his students of color who mutually engage issues of literacy, language, learning, and culture. Through his journey, Fecho presents a method of “critical inquiry” that allows students and teachers to take intellectual and social risks in the classroom to make meaning together and, ultimately, to transform literacy education. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards

    Making Room for Dialogue

    Many educators feel caught between mandates to meet literacy standards and the desire to respond to individual students’ interests, skills, and challenges. This book illustrates how a dialogical approach to practice will enable teachers to meet the needs of today’s diverse student population within a standardized curriculum. Chapters highlight the efforts of four high school teachers to create ... Read more

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  • Dialoguing across Cultures, Identities, and Learning

    Crosscurrents and Complexities in Literacy Classrooms

    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Drawing on Dialogical Self Theory, this book presents a new framework for social and cultural identity construction in the literacy classroom, offering possibilities for how teachers might adjust their pedagogy to better support the range of cultural stances present in all classrooms.In the complex multicultural/multiethnic/multilingual contexts of learning in and out of school spaces today, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven threshold concepts that run throughout the research, teaching, assessment, and public work in ... Read more

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  • Why Reading Books Still Matters

    The Power of Literature in Digital Times

    Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed ... Read more

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  • Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition

    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and
    In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing, ... Read more

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