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  • L. S. Vygotsky and English in Education and the Language Arts

    by Peter Smagorinsky ...
    Series series Key Thinkers in English in Education and the Language Arts
    L. S. Vygotsky and English in Education and the Language Arts focuses on the hugely significant contributions of L. S. Vygotsky to research, theory, and practice in English and the Language Arts, exploring the relevance of Vygotsky’s works for today’s teachers and researchers.Drawing on his 30 years of study, Smagorinsky interprets Vygotsky in relation to literacy education, teacher education, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Whitewashed Critical Perspectives

    Restoring the Edge to Edgy Ideas

    Edited by Catherine Compton-Lilly, Tisha Lewis Ellison, Peter Smagorinsky, Kristen Perry ...
    This volume examines revolutionary constructs in literacy education and demonstrates how they have been gentrified, whitewashed, and appropriated, losing their revolutionary edge so as to become palatable for the mainstream. Written by top scholars in literacy education, chapters cover key concepts that were originally conceived as radical theories to upset the status quo—including Third Space, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Developing Culturally and Historically Sensitive Teacher Education

    Global Lessons from a Literacy Education Program

    Edited by Peter Smagorinsky, Yolanda Gayol Ramírez, Patricia Rosas Chávez ...
    Series series Reinventing Teacher Education
    Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021This volume explores the literacy education master's degree program developed at Universidad de Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico, with the aim of addressing the nation's emerging social, economic, technological, and political needs. Developing the program required taking into account the cultural diversity, historical economic ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Discourse of Character Education

    Culture Wars in the Classroom

    by Peter Smagorinsky, Joel Taxel ...
    In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s.The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education. The authors show how the current discourses ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts

    A Vygotskian Perspective on Beginning Teachers’ Pedagogical Concept Development

    by Peter Smagorinsky ...
    Drawing together Smagorinsky's extensive research over a 20-year period, Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts explores how beginning teachers' pedagogical concepts are shaped by a variety of influences. Challenging popular thinking about the binary roles of teacher education programs and school-based experiences in the process of learning to teach, Smagorinsky illustrates, through case ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Teaching Dilemmas and Solutions in Content-Area Literacy, Grades 6-12

    Edited by Peter Smagorinsky ...
    Because literacy is not just the English teacher’s jobThink literacy is just for English teachers? Not anymore. Nor should it be when you consider that each discipline has its own unique values and means of expression. These days, it’s up to all teachers to communicate what it means to be literate in their disciplines. Here, finally, is a book ambitious enough to tackle the topic across all major ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Service-Learning in Literacy Education

    Possibilities for Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Valerie Kinloch, Peter Smagorinsky ...
    This edited collection will stand as the first volume that specifically describes service-learning programs and courses designed as part of teacher education programs in the fields of literacy education, secondary English education, elementary language arts education, and related fields. The contributing authors describe the programs they have developed at their universities and/or in their local ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research

    Edited by Leila Christenbury, EdD, Randy Bomer, PhD, Peter Smagorinsky, PhD ...
    The first comprehensive research handbook of its kind, this volume showcases innovative approaches to understanding adolescent literacy learning in a variety of settings. Distinguished contributors examine how well adolescents are served by current instructional practices and highlight ways to translate research findings more effectively into sound teaching and policymaking. The book explores ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth

    Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance

    Edited by Peter Smagorinsky ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This edited volume explores the roles of socially-channeled play and performance in the developmental trajectories of young people who fall on the autism spectrum. The contributors offer possibilities for channels of activity through which youth on the autism spectrum may find acceptance, affirmation, and kinship with others. "Positive social updraft" characterizes the social channels through ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development

    Learning Teaching

    Edited by Viv Ellis, Anne Edwards, Peter Smagorinsky ...
    Teachers, both in and beyond teacher education programmes, are continual learners. As society itself evolves, new settings and the challenges they provide require new learning. Teachers must continually adapt to new developments that affect their work, including alterations to qualification systems, new relationships with welfare professionals, and new technologies which are reconfiguring ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Teaching Literacy in Troubled Times

    Identity, Inquiry, and Social Action at the Heart of Instruction

    by Allison Skerrett, Peter Smagorinsky ...
    Series series Corwin Literacy
    "Upending deficit narrative of learning loss, combating broken approaches to racial equity, and wading deep into the contested waters of democratic principles of learning within today’s schools, Dr. Skerrett and Dr. Smagorinsky offer an accessible guidebook for making our classrooms sites of justice and joy. Perhaps most importantly, theirs is a book that reveals classroom practices as they really ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Dismantling the Disabling Environments of Education

    Creating New Cultures and Contexts for Accommodating Difference

    Edited by Peter Smagorinsky, Joseph Tobin, Kyunghwa Lee ...
    Series Book 24 - Disability Studies in Education
    Dismantling the Disabling Environments of Education: Creating New Cultures and Contexts for Accommodating Difference challenges assumptions that view people of difference to be "abnormal," that isolate attention to their difference solely in the individual, that treat areas of difference as matters of deficiency, and that separate youth of difference from the mainstream and treat them as ... Read more

    $39.99 USD