Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses

Jory Brass is Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, USA.Allen Webb is Professor of English Education and Postcolonial Studies, Western Michigan University, USA.

• ContentsPreface 1. Reconstituting Teacher Education: Literacy, Critical Theories, and EnglishJory Brass2. A Critical Sociocultural Approach to English EducationCynthia Lewis, Tracey Pyscher, Erin Stutelberg3. Towards Critical Participatory Literacies through Digital Video Composition in an Elementary Literacy Capstone CourseJessica Zacher Pandya4. Digital/Media Literacies in a Media Literacy and a Digital Writing Methods CourseRichard Beach5. Performance Pedagogies in Literacy Methods: Emergence, Embodiment, and Critical PracticesCarmen Liliana Medina, Linda Skidmore Coggin, Gustave John Weltsek 6. Working toward Dialogically Organized Instruction through Video-Based Response and RevisionSamantha Caughlan and Mary M. Juzwik7. A Critical Resource Orientation to Literacy Assessment through a Stance of SolidarityGerald Campano, Katrina Bartow Jacobs, Lan Ngo8. Communities of Practice: Bridging the Gap between Methods Courses and Secondary SchoolsJames Cercone9. Synthesizing Formal and Experiential Concepts in a Service-Learning CoursePeter Smagorinsky, Lindy L. Johnson, Christopher M. Clayton10. Generative Critical Pedagogy in English Language Arts Methods for Urban SchoolsTonya Perry11. Learning to Teach Diverse Learners in a Writing Pedagogies ClassJoyce Meier, Yunjeong Choi, Ellen Cushman12. A Trauma Studies Lens on Writing Methods: Crafting a Critical, Affective, Practice-Based PedagogyElizabeth Dutro, Ashley Cartun13. Critical Literary Theory in a Literature Methods ClassDeborah Appleman14. A Cultural Studies Approach to Literature MethodsAllen Webb15. Talking Policy in a Language Arts Curriculum Course for Reading SpecialistsPatrick ShannonContributorsIndex