Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses

Critical Issues and Challenges for Teacher Educators in Top-Down Times

Jory Brass, Allen Webb

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317935865
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Literacy
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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 economic aims and traditional classroom practices sanctioned by educational policies and corporate educational reforms.

Featuring leading and emerging scholars in English language arts teacher education, each chapter provides rich and concrete examples of elementary and secondary methods courses rooted in contemporary research and theory, on-line resources, and honest appraisals of the possibilities, tensions, and limits of doing teacher education differently in a top-down time of standards-based education, high-stakes testing, teacher assessment, and neoliberal education reforms. This book offers important resources and support for teacher educators and graduate students to explore alternative visions for aligning university methods courses with current trends in English and cultural studies, critical sociocultural literacy, new literacies and web 2.0 tools, and teaching the English language arts in multiethnic, multilingual, and underserved urban communities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• 1 Reconstituting Teacher Education: Literacy, Critical Theories, and English
• 2 A Critical Sociocultural Approach to English Education
• 3 Towards Critical Participatory Literacies Through Digital Video Composition in an Elementary Literacy Capstone Course
• 4 Digital/Media Literacies in a Media Literacy and a Digital Writing Methods Course
• 5 Performance Pedagogies in Literacy Methods: Emergence, Embodiment, and Critical Practices
• 6 Working Toward Dialogically Organized Instruction Through Video-Based Response and Revision
• 7 A Critical Resource Orientation to Literacy Assessment Through a Stance of Solidarity
• 8 Communities of Practice: Bridging the Gap Between Methods Courses and Secondary Schools
• 9 Synthesizing Formal and Experiential Concepts in a Service-Learning Course
• 10 Generative Critical Pedagogy in English Language Arts Methods for Urban Schools
• 11 Learning to Teach Diverse Learners in a Writing Pedagogies Class
• 12 A Trauma Studies Lens on Writing Methods: Crafting a Critical, Affective, Practice-Based Pedagogy
• 13 Critical Literary Theory in a Literature Methods Class
• 14 A Cultural Studies Approach to Literature Methods
• 15 Talking Policy in a Language Arts Curriculum Course for Reading Specialists
• Contributors
• Index