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  • Critical Reflections on Leading in Educational Contexts

    Entering Identity Portals

    by Janet Alsup ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is a written account of a qualitative, narrative-based critical autoethnography exploring the development of leadership identities of women leaders, including the author, working in various educational settings, including K-12 schools, universities, politics, research centers, and community non-profit organizations.The author layers key findings from these participant stories with her ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Young Adult Literature and Adolescent Identity Across Cultures and Classrooms

    Contexts for the Literary Lives of Teens

    Edited by Janet Alsup ...
    Taking a critical, research-oriented perspective, this exploration of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical connections between the reading and teaching of young adult literature and adolescent identity development centers around three key questions:Who are the teens reading young adult literature?Why should teachers teach young adult literature?Why are teens reading young adult literature ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School

    Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization

    by Janet Alsup ...
    Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools—at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected—this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms. The case is made through critical examination of the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

    Balancing Self and Other

    by Janet Alsup ...
    Over ten years after the original edition of Teacher Identity Discourses, Janet Alsup revisits her work with a new research study examining the characteristics of the millennial teachers now beginning to populate K-12 classrooms. Building off the first edition, this text is based on a qualitative, interview-based research study, and provides a contemporary look at how millennial teachers ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities

    Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths

    Edited by Lisa Schade Eckert, Janet Alsup ...
    This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in teaching and learning. Authentic narratives document individual ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • First Opinions, Second Reactions

    A Collection of Innovative Online Reviews of Literature for Children and Young Adults

    Edited by Janet Alsup, Christy Wessel-Powell ...
    First Opinions, Second Reactions: A Collection of Innovative Online Reviews of Literature for Children and Young Adults features selected pieces from the journal First Opinions, Second Reactions, which reviews children’s and young adult books. The journal, and this book, consist of reviews of books written by scholars of children’s and YA literature, followed up with responses from those who share ... Read more

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    Reading and Writing with an Edge

    by Mitzi Lewison, Christine Leland, Jerome C. Harste ...
    This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy—in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Media in Education

    Results from the 2011 ICEM and SIIE joint Conference

    Edited by António Moreira, Otto Benavides, Antonio Jose Mendes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With the aim of discussing “old” and “new” teaching technologies, based on research and on the strategies and praxis of the use of technologies and methodologies in the different teaching levels, and also embracing the contribution and active participation of researchers, teachers, creators, managers and other specialists, the work will provide inputs on the following topics: Students’ ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom

    Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement

    Edited by Alissa Burger ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right. From fictional stories to non-fiction works such as biography/memoir, history, or critical textbooks, graphic narratives provide students a new way to ... Read more

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  • Teaching Global Literature in Elementary Classrooms

    A Critical Literacy and Teacher Inquiry Approach

    by Kelly K. Wissman, Maggie Naughter Burns, Krista Jiampetti, Heather O'Leary, Simeen Tabatabai ...
    Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infuse diverse texts into their classrooms and find support for their endeavours in teacher inquiry communities. Through carefully analyzed, ethnographically informed portraits of classroom life alternating with teachers’ own accounts of their teaching and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms

    Future Proofing Education

    Edited by Leonie Rowan, Chris Bigum ...
    In this book we outline an optimistic, aspirational and unashamedly ambitious agenda for schooling. We make cautious use of the concept of ‘future proofing’ to signal the commitment of the various authors to re-thinking the purposes, content and processes of schooling with a view to ensuring that all children, from all backgrounds are prepared by their education to make a positive contribution to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature

    Coming of Age

    Edited by Crag Hill ...
    This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as literature? Is it worthy of close study?The treatment is both conceptual and pragmatic. Each chapter discusses a topical text set of YA novels in a ... Read more

    $76.99 USD