Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language

Pathways Toward Advocacy-Focused Teaching

Althier M. Lazar, Kaitlin K. Moran, Shoshanna Edwards-Alexander (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2023
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6875-4 (ISBN)

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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.

This book shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. While portraits of culturally conscious literacy teachers are now readily available, becoming such a teacher continues to be a challenge. Drawing from 60+ years of experience working with teacher candidates and teachers in the city of Philadelphia, 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. Recognizing that educators can be overwhelmed trying to match the realities they face daily with the theory behind good practice, Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language packs a lot of big ideas into one readable, concise book that is perfect for use in literacy methods courses. The text includes definitions and examples of equity concepts, relatable teacher vignettes, and "Pause and Reflect" boxes to encourage reflection and classroom conversation.

Book Features:

Examines the central problems of students' disconnection with school, spirit murdering, and the teacher education gap.
Looks at inequities that have become normalized in classrooms and schools through standardized testing, literacy teaching routines and structures, and deficit-laced language about students and families.
Discusses literacies and languages as cultural practices and the need to be vigilant about the linguistic violence that occurs when students' languages are delegitimized.
Describes critically and culturally centered teaching frameworks.
Provides vivid examples of advocacy-focused teaching.

Althier M. Lazar is a professor of education at Saint Joseph's University. Her books include Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogies, Schools of Promise for Multilingual Students, Bridging Literacy and Equity, and Practicing What We Teach. Kaitlin K. Moran is an assistant professor of teacher education at Saint Joseph's University. Shoshanna Edwards-Alexander is a clinical assistant professor of social work for the School of Education and Human Development at Saint Joseph's University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Language and Literacy Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 235 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	0-8077-6875-8 / 0807768758
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6875-4 / 9780807768754
Zustand	Neuware