Critical Language Pedagogy by Godley, Amanda J.; Reaser, Jeffrey; Miller, sj; Burns, Leslie David;

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Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education demonstrates how critical approaches to language and dialects are an essential part of social justice work in literacy education.

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Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education demonstrates how critical approaches to language and dialects are an essential part of social justice work in literacy education. The text details the largest and most comprehensive study ever conducted on teachers' language beliefs and learning about dialects, power, and identity. It describes the experiences of over 300 pre- and in-service teachers from across the United States who participated in a course on how to enact Critical Language Pedagogy in their English classrooms.

Through detailed analyses and descriptions, the authors demonstrate how the course changed teachers' beliefs about language, literacy, and their students. The book also presents information about the effectiveness of the mini-course, variations in the responses of teachers from different regions of the United States, and the varying language beliefs of teachers of color and White teachers. The authors present the entire mini-course so that readers can incorporate it into their own classes, making the book practical as well as informative for teachers, teacher educators, and educational researchers.

Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education provides a much-needed theoretical explanation of Critical Language Pedagogy and, just as importantly, a detailed description of teacher learning and a Critical Language Pedagogy curriculum that readers can use in K-12, college, and teacher education classrooms.

"This is an eloquently written and inspiring book about language and power in schools and classrooms. This book is a gift-a real gem-for teacher educators and teachers committed to disrupting injustice and building on the many linguistic assets of students. The authors insist that we reconsider what we believe we know, redesign our curriculum practices, rethink our pedagogical moves, and reimagine our discursive interactions in order to honor and cultivate diverse identity spaces. A welcome addition to the literature, the book reminds us that White teachers can and must be prepared to teach for language equity, justice, and humanity." -H. Richard Milner IV, Helen Faison Professor of Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh

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Table of Contents:

List of Tables - Foreword: Moving beyond Uncritical, Conformist, and Assimilationist Models of Language Pedagogy - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Critical Language Pedagogy Curriculum - Study Design - Teachers' Learning about Dialects, Instruction, Power, and Privilege - Racial and Regional Differences in How Preservice Teachers Respond to Critical Language Pedagogy - Conclusions and Recommendations - Index.

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