New Directions in Teaching English

Edited by Antero Eidman-Aadah and Elisa A. Scherff

New Directions in Teaching English: Reimagining Teaching, Teacher Education and Research attempts to create a comprehensive vision of critical and culturally relevant English teaching at the dawn of the 21st century.

DedicationPrefaceIntroductionSection 1: Classroom TeachingChapter 1: Critical Multiliteracies Pedagogy in a Secondary English ClassroomJerica CoffeyChapter 2: Cultural Relevance in the Modern Language Arts ClassroomJose Paco FiallosChapter 3: Distraction, Differentiation, & Socialization: English Education, Pedagogy, and Literacy Acquisition in an Era of Social and Mobile MediaAntero GarciaChapter 4: Towards a Literacy ContinuumLatrise P. Johnson and Maisha T. WinnChapter 5: Black and Latina/o Youth Linguistic Repertoires in Urban English Language Arts ClassroomDanny C. MartinezSection 2: Teacher EducationChapter 6: Service Learning in New Spaces: Transforming Preservice TeachersLisa ScherffChapter 7: English Teacher Education for Rural Social SpacesLeslie S. RushChapter 8: Learning from Equity Audits: Powerful Social Justice in English Education for the 21st Centurysj MillerSection 3: Scholarship and AdvocacyChapter 9: Critical Engagement through Digital Media Production: A Nexus of PracticeCynthia Lewis and Lauren CauseyChapter 10: Digital Literacy Advocacy: A Rationale for Shifting Policy, Infrastructure, and InstructionTroy HicksChapter 11: "Don't Say Gay": Using Action Research to Interrogate Language Use in the English ClassroomSusan L. Groenke and Judson C. LaughterChapter 12: Practitioner Research in English EducationPatricia Lambert StockAbout the Contributors