Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“luke rodesiler”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “luke rodesiler”
Skip side bar filters

  • Reading the World through Sports and Young Adult Literature

    Resources for the English Classroom

    by Luke Rodesiler, Mark A. Lewis, Alan Brown ...
    Recommended and award-winning works of young adult literature featuring youth athletes—protagonists who are entangled not only in athletic competition but in the complications of life beyond the arena—offer secure footholds that students can use to explore contemporary sociopolitical issues.With chapters addressing timely topics—including combating sexism and misogyny, protesting systemic racism, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bringing Sports Culture to the English Classroom

    An Interest-Driven Approach to Literacy Instruction

    by Luke Rodesiler ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Learn how to use literature and informational texts related to sports as an alternative or a supplement to a canon-centric English classroom. This practical book promotes an instructional approach that honors students’ knowledge of, interests in, and experiences with sports culture to advance literacy learning. Informed by his own experiences in high school classrooms, the author documents the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Stories of Sports

    Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination

    by Katherin Garland, Katie Shepherd Dredger, Crystal L. Beach, Cathy Leogrande, Limarys Caraballo, Mark A. Fabrizi, Mark Lewis0, Cynthia Martin1, J. Patrick McGrail2, Alicja Rieger3, Brian Sheehy4, Luke Rodesiler6, Richard Beach7, Alan Brown8, Ewa McGrail9 ...
    Stories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination discusses how media demonstrates privilege, policing, stereotypes, confirmation bias, and objectification in a world where the role of athletics in Western society speaks to privilege and power. Contributors use a critical media lens to analyze texts, including newspapers, magazines, film, television, social ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Yin and Yang in the English Classroom

    Teaching with Popular Culture Texts

    by Sandra Eckard, April Brannon, Mary T. Christel, Katelynn Collins-Hall, Salena Fehnel, Carmela Delia Lanza, Jennifer Marmo, Laura Sloan Patterson, Carissa Pokorny-Golden, Luke Rodesiler0, Alex Romagnoli1, Blake Tenore2, Elle Yarborough3, Hannah R. Gerber4 ...
    English studies today are driven by demanding curriculum, but this need is often met with unenthusiastic students. “Fun” work—like movie days or projects—is often seen as what to do after the real work is finished. But what if instructors could blend the two pieces together more effectively, motivating students with interesting material while still achieving curriculum goals? This text attempts to ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization

    Exploring the Fandemonium

    by Kelly Berg, Jeff Boone, Kathy Brady, David Fingerhut, Walter Gantz, Frederick Grieve, Allison Harthcock, John Heppen, Craig Hyatt, Mark Julien, Jennifer Marmo, Jessi McCabe, Sarah Porri, Greg G. Armfield, Nicholas D. Bowman, Phillip J. Chidester, Matthew J. Gill, Tom E. Isaacson, Ricard W. Jensen, Jason R. Lanter, Pamela Gayle Nadorff, Julie A. Partridge, John S. W. Spinda, Brian S. Titsworth, Amanda J. Visek, Daniel L. Wann, Ryan K. Zapalac, John A. Fortunato, William M. Foster, John P. McGuire, James R. Walker, Katherine L. Lavelle, Roger C. Aden, David E. Beard, Andrew C. Billings, John Harris, Lawrence A. Wenner ...
    Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans, Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul Haridakis, and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Olympic Media

    Inside the Biggest Show on Television

    by Andrew Billings ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    Located in the United States, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) is the biggest and most powerful Olympic network in the world, having won the rights to televise both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. By way of attracting more viewers of both sexes and all ages and ethnicities than any other sporting event, and through the production of breathtaking spectacles and absorbing stories, NBC’s ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap

    Hockey’s Agents of Change

    Edited by Cheryl A. MacDonald, Jonathon R.J. Edwards ...
    Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey’s norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey’s culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features both personal and scholarly ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Football, Culture and Power

    Edited by David J. Leonard, Kimberly B. George, Wade Davis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the relationship between American football, violence and the larger relations of power ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Reputational Challenges in Sport

    Theory and Application

    Edited by Andrew C. Billings, W. Timothy Coombs, Kenon A. Brown ...
    Issues of reputation management are negotiated in a wide array of contexts, yet arguably one of the most visible of these areas involves how such stories unfold within the sporting arena. Whether involving individual athletes, teams, organizations, leagues, or global entities, the process of navigating issues of image repair and/or restoration and crisis-based communication has never been more ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Working While Black

    Essays on Television Portrayals of African American Professionals

    Edited by LaToya T. Brackett ...
    In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized and have started extending beyond racial stereotypes. In this collection of essays, the representation of Black characters in professionally defined careers is examined. Commentary is also provided on the portrayal of Black people in relation to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sport and Violence

    by Lynn M Jamieson, Thomas Orr ...
    Sport and Violence takes a critical look at the culture of ‘sports rage’ and aggression in the sporting industry, covering ethical, historical and sociological causes and impacts. It examines international examples of sport violence, including: the father of a tennis competitor placing a drug in the drinks of her competitors; a player’s neck broken after being attacked from behind by an opponent ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Belonging

    The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides

    by Geoffrey L. Cohen ...
    **Finalist for The Next Big Idea Bookclub • Behavioral Scientist and Greater Good Society Book of the Year Selection"This is perhaps the richest book on belonging you’ll ever read.…The inspiration one draws from every page of this book is an enhanced sense of what is possible. It revives the very thing we need most in these times: hope." —Claude M. Steele, author of Whistling Vivaldi**Discover the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook