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Book Synopsis
Shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. The authors argue that becoming an advocacy-focused literacy teacher requires making moral commitments to students and developing professional competencies that fuse literacy, language, and equity studies.

Table of Contents
  • Contents
  • Foreword Delicia Tiera Greene  ix
  • Acknowledgments  xi
  • Introduction  1
    Our Purpose  1
    Structure of the Book  3
    Who We Are  4
  • 1.  A Need for Advocacy-Focused Literacy Educators  7
    A Reckoning  7
    The Teacher Education Gap  11
    Teacher Development: Building Commitments and Competencies  13
    Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language in a Landscape of Practice  17
    Conclusion  20
  • 2.  Understanding Ourselves and Others  21
    Developing a Critical Awareness of Race  21
    A Pathway to Understanding  25
    Stumbling and Getting Back Up Again  27
    Developing a Critical Awareness of Culture  29
    Developing a Critical Awareness of Intersectionality  33
    Conclusion  35
  • 3.  Inequities in Schools and Classrooms  36
    Pushing Kids Out of School  37
    Limitations of Literacy Curricula and Assessment  40
    Literacy Teaching Routines and Structures  44
    Deficit Descriptions and Approaches  46
    Conclusion  49
  • 4.  Racism in Schools and Society  51
    The Invention of Race: A Brief History  51
    The Impact of Racial Categorizations  53
    Misinterpreting Critical Race Theory and the Need to Address Racism in School  57
    Literacy Educator Activism: Noticing, Questioning, Challenging  61
    Conclusion  63
  • 5.  Many Literacies and Languages  65
    Rethinking Perspectives About Literacy and Language  65
    Autonomous and Ideological Conceptions of Literacy Revisited  67
    A Bit of History: The Heath Study  68
    Critiquing the "Word Gap" Research  70
    Englishes, Raciolinguistics, and Code-Meshing  71
    Multilingualism, Dynamic Bilingualism, and Translanguaging  75
    Conclusion  77
  • 6.  Toward Culturally Centered Teaching  79
    Meet Cecilia  80
    Meet Andrea  84
    Examining Teachers and Teaching Through Advocacy-Focused Frameworks  88
    Seeing Teachers Within and Beyond Frameworks  93
    Conclusion  94
  • 7.  Toward Critical Teaching  95
    Critical Literacy: Questioning Texts and the World  96
    Meet Jennifer  99
    Revisiting Andrea  101
    Youth and Educator Activism  103
    Revisiting Cecilia  103
    Meet Burton  104
    Connecting With Established Organizations  106
    Conclusion  108
  • 8.  Pathways Toward Advocacy-Focused Teaching  110
    Noticing Inequities and Envisioning Change  110
    Noticing Inequities and Forging Change  113
    Meet Kristin  114
    Next Steps  118
    Your Path Begins With You  118
    Envision and Forge Change  120
    Putting It All Together  124
  • References  127
  • Index  139
  • About the Authors  145

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 12/22/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780807768754, 978-0807768754
      ISBN10: 0807768758

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. The authors argue that becoming an advocacy-focused literacy teacher requires making moral commitments to students and developing professional competencies that fuse literacy, language, and equity studies.

      Table of Contents
      • Contents
      • Foreword Delicia Tiera Greene  ix
      • Acknowledgments  xi
      • Introduction  1
        Our Purpose  1
        Structure of the Book  3
        Who We Are  4
      • 1.  A Need for Advocacy-Focused Literacy Educators  7
        A Reckoning  7
        The Teacher Education Gap  11
        Teacher Development: Building Commitments and Competencies  13
        Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language in a Landscape of Practice  17
        Conclusion  20
      • 2.  Understanding Ourselves and Others  21
        Developing a Critical Awareness of Race  21
        A Pathway to Understanding  25
        Stumbling and Getting Back Up Again  27
        Developing a Critical Awareness of Culture  29
        Developing a Critical Awareness of Intersectionality  33
        Conclusion  35
      • 3.  Inequities in Schools and Classrooms  36
        Pushing Kids Out of School  37
        Limitations of Literacy Curricula and Assessment  40
        Literacy Teaching Routines and Structures  44
        Deficit Descriptions and Approaches  46
        Conclusion  49
      • 4.  Racism in Schools and Society  51
        The Invention of Race: A Brief History  51
        The Impact of Racial Categorizations  53
        Misinterpreting Critical Race Theory and the Need to Address Racism in School  57
        Literacy Educator Activism: Noticing, Questioning, Challenging  61
        Conclusion  63
      • 5.  Many Literacies and Languages  65
        Rethinking Perspectives About Literacy and Language  65
        Autonomous and Ideological Conceptions of Literacy Revisited  67
        A Bit of History: The Heath Study  68
        Critiquing the "Word Gap" Research  70
        Englishes, Raciolinguistics, and Code-Meshing  71
        Multilingualism, Dynamic Bilingualism, and Translanguaging  75
        Conclusion  77
      • 6.  Toward Culturally Centered Teaching  79
        Meet Cecilia  80
        Meet Andrea  84
        Examining Teachers and Teaching Through Advocacy-Focused Frameworks  88
        Seeing Teachers Within and Beyond Frameworks  93
        Conclusion  94
      • 7.  Toward Critical Teaching  95
        Critical Literacy: Questioning Texts and the World  96
        Meet Jennifer  99
        Revisiting Andrea  101
        Youth and Educator Activism  103
        Revisiting Cecilia  103
        Meet Burton  104
        Connecting With Established Organizations  106
        Conclusion  108
      • 8.  Pathways Toward Advocacy-Focused Teaching  110
        Noticing Inequities and Envisioning Change  110
        Noticing Inequities and Forging Change  113
        Meet Kristin  114
        Next Steps  118
        Your Path Begins With You  118
        Envision and Forge Change  120
        Putting It All Together  124
      • References  127
      • Index  139
      • About the Authors  145

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