In 1969, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner published Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Subversive teaching today, however, looks very different than it did in 1969. Teachers today must deliver their instruction in an era of formidable challenges related to curriculum, educational policy, and cultural and political ideology. Students learn in an environment that includes active shooter drills and increasingly violent public policy that assaults immigrants, people of Color, women, and the LGBTQIA+ community. A robust public education is needed now more than ever, though the resources to provide it dwindle daily. Acts of Resistance: Subversive Teaching in the English Language Arts (ELA) Classroom showcases examples of subversive pedagogy to instruct and inspire teachers and to contextualize subversive ELA pedagogy in the contemporary educational moment. Chapter authors--in-service teachers and teacher educators alike--draw from case studies, narrative inquiry, and other qualitative methodologies to explain how they have variously taken up subversive pedagogy in the ELA classroom. Because teachers and other stakeholders resist oppressive structures—including disciplinary confinements—when they teach from subversive viewpoints, each chapter describes a disciplinary "act of resistance" that illuminates possibilities for countering uncritical, "traditional" handling of ELA experiences. Perfect for courses such as:
ELA Methods | Literacy Methods | Social Justice | Critical Literacy | Writing | Literature | Disciplinary Literacy | Curriculum Theory | Pedagogy | ELA Professional Development (Inservice Teachers)

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Publisher

Myers Education Press

Year

2020

ISBN

9781975503338

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Education Curricula

Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction: What Is Subversive Disciplinary Literacy?
1. Black Words Matter: Bending Literary Close Reading Toward Justice
2. Arguing for Empathy: Subverting the Teaching of Argumentation
3. “Well, I Took It There”: Subversive Teaching to (Disrupt) the Test
4. Inquiry Ignites! Pushing Back Against Traditional Literacy Instruction
5. “Climb Into Their Skin”: Whiteness and the Subversion of Perspective
6. Amplifying Teacher Voices Through Instagram: Subversive Teaching Meets the 21st Century
7. Making a “Safe” and Subversive Space for Students’ Lives Through Open Mic
8. The Responsible Change Project: Subverting the Standardized English Language Arts Curriculum
9. Disability as Pedagogy: Vulnerability as a Social Justice Tool
10. Gender Bending the Curriculum: Queer Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare in High School
11. Interrupting “Single Stories”: Using Socially Just Media Texts to Teach Rhetorical Analysis
12. Can We Talk?: Promoting Anti-Oppressive Futures for Girls of Color Through a Social Justice Enrichment Program
13. Subverting Curricula and Assessment Design by Using Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices: My Culturally Responsive World Literature Course
14. “Why Can’t They Test Us on This?” A Framework for Transforming Intensive Reading Instruction
15. Reading The Odyssey Today: Subversive Outsiders, Stances, and Journeys
16. Revolutionizing the Canon: Repositioning Texts During Politically Tumultuous Times
17. The Case of Courtenay: Subversive Resistance in English Teacher Evaluation
About the Authors
Index