Classroom Talk for Social Change: Critical Conversations in English Language Arts

by Melissa Schieble, Amy Vetter, Kahdeidra Monet Martin

Learn how to foster critical conversations in English language arts classrooms. This guide encourages teachers to engage students in noticing and discussing harmful discourses about race, gender, and other identities. The authors take readers through a framework that includes knowledge about power, a critical learner stance, critical pedagogies, critical talk moves, and vulnerability. The text features in-depth classroom examples from six secondary English language arts classrooms. Each chapter offers specific ways in which teachers can begin and sustain critical conversations with their students, including the creation of teacher inquiry groups that use transcript analysis as a learning tool. Book

Genres: Teaching

160 pages, Hardcover

Published February 14, 2020

Reviews

[Mehdi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really wanted to like this book, but the general undertheorization and the dominant focus on race is a bit disabling. I don't think I have read the word capitalism even once in the book! When the authors talk about 'class' they briefly mention 'individualism' and 'meritocracy'. Well, that is a good start but I wish it went deeper.