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TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED Ernest Morrell Bookmarked by Leigh Hall It should just be education: Critical pedagogy normalized as academic excellence View Paper Donna Alvermann Bookmarked by Leigh Hall Popular Culture and Literacy Practices This chapter addresses three debates that have arisen from popular culture's increased presence in the field of literacy education. Although the term popular culture may evoke notions of the ephemeral, literacy researchers' interests in this topic are neither transient nor narrowly focused. As a way into this literature, the chapter begins with an historical overview of how the textual and social practices of popular culture connect to 21st century literacy practices. Next, it offers an interpretive analysis of the three debates at the intersection of popular culture and literacy practices.... View Paper Leigh Hall Bookmarked by Sara Kajder The Role of Identity in Reading Comprehension Development The purpose of this year-long project was to examine an instructional framework intended to help middle school teachers create instruction that responds to students' reading identities while also helping students learn the skills they need to be successful readers. The project used a formative design approach in order to achieve 3 pedagogical goals with middle school students: (a) examine and positively change their involvement with classroom reading practices, (b) improve their reading comprehension abilities, and (c) allow them to progress in who they want to become as readers. View Paper Tracey Pyscher Bookmarked by Sara Kajder Critical sociocultural perspectives in English education In Chapter 2 , Cynthia Lewis, Tracey Pyscher, and Erin Stutelberg showcase a sequence of secondary English methods courses framed by critical sociocultural theory. In these courses, teacher candidates act as critical ethnographers who design comprehensive plans for teaching, learning, and assessment derived from inquiries into students' lives and communities. They also develop repertoires of critical reading and writing practices that help young people to contest language ideologies, take action, and transform their worlds. View Paper W. Ian O'Byrne Bookmarked by Leigh Hall Computational Participation: Understanding Coding as an Extension of Literacy Instruction Programming languages universally rely on an algorithmic way to process and organize information—essentially a way to think computationally, which has been identified as crucial for problem solving in the new millennium. It is not necessarily a matter of turning all adolescents into computer scientists, but rather leveraging coding as a means to get youth more engaged in the workings of the web-based media that surrounds them. Understanding the computational concepts upon which countless digital applications run offers learners the opportunity to no longer simply "read" such media but to... View Paper Donna Alvermann Bookmarked by Raúl Alberto Mora Is there a place for popular culture in curriculum and classroom instruction? (The pro position) View Paper James Jupp Georgia Southern University, Department of Teaching and Learning, Faculty Member Video Interview with Christine Sleeter on Racially Conscientizing White Teachers This video interview with Christine Sleeter provides spoken-word content for critical teacher educators charged with the racial conscientization of White preservice and inservice teachers. Providing video clips relevant to critical teacher educators' classroom practices, Sleeter discusses (a) the pernicious effects of White teachers' " color-blind " identities, (b) White teachers coming into the profession//multicultural curriculum development, (c) moving beyond White-centric understandings of " appreciating diversity, " (d) White teachers who learn to co-construct relationships and... View Paper John Postill Bookmarked by Leigh Hall Social media ethnography: the digital researcher in a messy web Social media practices and technologies are often part of how ethnographic research participants navigate their wider social, material and technological worlds and are equally part of ethnographic practice. This creates the need to consider how emergent forms of social media-driven ethnographic practice might be understood theoretically and methodologically. In this article we respond critically to existing literatures concerning the nature of the internet as an ethnographic site, by suggesting how concepts of routine, movement, and sociality enable us to understand the making of social... View Paper John Postill Bookmarked by Leigh Hall Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined. Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological tools needed to research society. The authoritative team of authors clearly set out how to research localities, objects and events as well as... View Paper Norman Fairclough Bookmarked by Leigh Hall Political correctness: the politics of culture and language In this article, I approach the controversy over 'political correctness' (PC) in terms of three questions: a socio-historical question, a theoretical question and a political question as follows. (1) Why this apparently increasing focus in politics on achieving social and political change through changing culture and changing language – what has happened socially that can explain the 'cultural turn' and the 'language turn' in politics, in social and political theory, and in other domains of social practice? (2) How are we to understand the relationships among culture, language and other... View Paper Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108 Unsubscribe   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service   © 2016 Academia

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