English Education
Representing Childhood and Atrocity
Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.
The Other Side of Pedagogy
Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.
Vernacular Insurrections
Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
Death in the Classroom
Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.
The Way Literacy Lives
Challenges an autonomous model of literacy instruction in favor of one that recognizes and builds on students’ facility in navigating other rhetorical contexts.
Writing Environments
Including interviews with several of America's leading environmental writers, this volume addresses the intersections between writing and nature.
Breaking Down the Digital Walls
An exploration of the benefits and problems of using the Internet in education.
Plain and Ordinary Things
This book is about women's exploration of the relations between their private and public selves--it examines the voices with which women speak to their students, their colleagues, and themselves. The major audience is women interested in women's identity and identity construction as well as writing.
Language and Learning
This book explores the challenges of teaching an increasingly multilingual and multicultural American school population. Six million American children—one in eight—live in homes where a language other ...
Schooling in the Light of Popular Culture
Many factors contribute to the way individuals come to an understanding of what schooling is about and where it might be headed. This book explores the role of popular culture in that process.
The authors ...
On Literacy and Its Teaching
This book recognizes and embraces the complexities of modern English teaching. It presents English teachers and teacher educators with a critical view of current professional issues and concerns in the ...
Bilingualism through Schooling
Bilingualism Through Schooling is a comprehensive survey of bilingual education. It shows how bilingual schooling can have a double impact by providing students with functional second-language competence, ...