Decolonizing Middle Level Literacy Instruction

A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Methods

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvMichael Domínguez,Robyn Seglem,Michael Dominguez

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This text offers pre-service and in-service teachers pragmatic strategies for teaching middle-grades literacy in culturally proactive and sustaining ways. By demystifying big ideas and complex concepts, Domínguez and Seglem provide clear pathways and lessons for illuminating and engaging with race, ethnicity, culture, and identity in the middle-grade English Language Arts classroom. While addressing social justice, equity, diversity, and liberation can seem intimidating or unrelated to classroom practice, the authors demonstrate how weaving such questions into instruction benefits students’ development. The guidance, strategies, and lessons in this book provide an answer to the question: What does decolonial literacy teaching look like? Concrete but not prescriptive, the authors encourage us to reconsider accepted logics of schooling, so that we can better support adolescents as they navigate complex identity landscapes. Bringing together disparate conversations around reading, writing, identity, and decolonial thinking, and specifically tailored to the middle grades, this book serves as a comprehensive toolkit for praxis and covers such topics as cultural change, community connections, and racial literacy. Each chapter features tips on reading and writing instruction, Teacher Spotlights, Planning Questions, and Additional Resources to make it easy for educators to apply the strategies to their own contexts.An accessible entry to addressing challenging questions around identity in the classroom, this book is essential reading in courses and professional development on ELA and literacy methods as well as teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students. For teachers looking to push toward equity and reshape literacy education so that it serves all middle-grade students, Domínguez and Seglem offer plenty of accessible and motivating places to start.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-30
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor182
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032251882

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PrefacePart I: In Dialogue / DesconocimientosChapter 1: Why Decolonize Our Classrooms?Coloniality and Decoloniality: A PrimerColonization v. ColonialityThinking Differently as DecolonialityQuestions to Consider in Reflecting on ColonialityResources to ExploreReferencesChapter 2: What Is Racial Literacy?IntroductionWhat Is Race? A Quick Primer for Decolonial EducatorsRace and Middle GradesRacial, Ethnic, and Cultural Identity Development for BIPOC YouthBuilding Racial Literacies as Decolonial PraxisMaking Decolonization NormalQuestions to Consider While Planning for Racially Literate PraxisResources to ExploreReferencesPart II: In Praxis / TravesiasChapter 3: Decolonized Classrooms...Nurture IntrospectionIntroductionComplicated Racial LandscapesReading Instruction to Trace Community HistoriesWriting Instruction to Practice Our Self-Narration Pushing Past Racial DiscomfortChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Planning for IntrospectionResources to ExploreAssessment AlternativesTechnology SpotlightReferencesChapter 4: Decolonized Classrooms...Connect Humans to One AnotherIntroductionAbolishing Zero-Point ThinkingReading Instruction to Nurture InterconnectionWriting Instruction to Foster Empathy Building a Holistic Ecology in the ClassroomChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Planning for Human ConnectionsResources to ExploreAssessment AlternativesTechnology SpotlightReferencesChapter 5: Decolonized Classrooms...Position Everyone as ExpertsInstructionDisrupting Colonial ExpertiseReading Instruction to Validate Youth ExpertiseWriting Instruction to Sustain Community LiteraciesClosing the Cultural Gaps Between Ourselves and Our StudentsChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Planning to Position Everyone as ExpertsResources to ExploreAssessment AlternativesTechnology SpotlightReferencesChapter 6: Decolonized Classrooms...Ask Challenging QuestionsIntroductionChallenging Reductive KnowledgeReading Instruction to Get at Big IdeasWriting Instruction to Engage with the WorldMaking Classroom Literacy ConsequentialChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Planning for Challenging QuestionsResources to ExploreAssessment AlternativesTechnology SpotlightReferencesChapter 7: Decolonized Classrooms...Disrupt NormalIntroductionA New Way to Think of the Banking MethodReading and Speaking Instruction to Build Radical ConsensusDisrupting the Activity System of Normalized SchoolingChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Planning to Disrupt NormalResources to ExploreAssessment AlternativesTechnology SpotlightReferencesChapter 8: Decolonized Classrooms…Leverage a Multilingual WorldIntroductionLinguistic Hegemony and ColonialityReading Instruction to Master Language UseWriting Instruction to Encourage Code-MeshingLanguage, Identity, and DecolonialityChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Planning for a Multilingual WorldResources to ExploreAssessment AlternativesTechnology SpotlightReferencesChapter 9: Decolonized Classrooms...Nurture Cultural ChangeIntroductionReacting to Cultural ChangeReading Instruction to Remix FuturesWriting Instruction to Sustain Youth CreativityHonoring Middle-School Youth as the Creators of New WorldsChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Planning for Nurturing Cultural ChangeResources to ExploreAssessment AlternativesTechnology SpotlightReferencesPart III: Pragmatic Vision / Conocimientos Chapter 10: Decolonized Educators...Navigate Tight Spaces in a Changing Educational LandscapeIntroductionTeaching in a Neocolonial Climate of FearCultural Artifacts in EducationDiscourse in EducationIdentity in EducationChallenge in PracticeQuestions to Consider While Navigating Tight SpacesResources to ExploreReferencesChapter 11: Decolonized Educators….Discover Ways to Sustain Their PracticeIntroductionSustaining our Commitments to Decolonization through InterconnectionSustaining our Connections to Students and CommunityLearning about Student Practices: Community EthnographiesLearning about Community Dynamics: Power Analysis and MappingBuilding Peer Networks to Sustain Decolonial PracticeChallenge(s) in PracticeQuestions to Consider for Sustaining our PracticeResources to ExploreReferencesChapter 12: A Few Last Thoughts on Our Decolonizing EffortsIntroductionMake Maps, Not TracingsEpistemic Disobedience and SustainabilityPragmatic Vision and the Decolonial