Classroom Talk for Social Change: Critical Conversations in English Language Arts

by Melissa Schieble, Amy Vetter, Kahdeidra Monet Martin

Learn how to foster critical conversations in English language arts classrooms. This guide encourages teachers to engage students in noticing and discussing harmful discourses about race, gender, and other identities. The authors take readers through a framework that includes knowledge about power, a critical learner stance, critical pedagogies, critical talk moves, and vulnerability. The text features in-depth classroom examples from six secondary English language arts classrooms. Each chapter offers specific ways in which teachers can begin and sustain critical conversations with their students, including the creation of teacher inquiry groups that use transcript analysis as a learning tool. Book

160 pages, Paperback

Published February 14, 2020

Reviews

[Leslie Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a great way to start the semester. It gave us a lot to talk about and helped students plan for having real conversations in their classrooms.