"This book contains a variety of practical implementations of teaching and learning in English education across ELA, literacy, and ESL. Such engagement sets out to directly confront persistent iterations of whiteness in English education through advancing antiracist dispositions and practices with the aim of disrupting the reproduction of white supremacy in curriculum and instruction. The authors of the chapters in this book are educators and scholars who describe and analyze various teaching projects located in K-12 and teacher education contexts. Dialogic reactions to these chapters are also offered throughout the book by acclaimed and experienced educators to further extend and complicate thought and action around themes emerging from the work. Ultimately, the intention of this work is to encourage a more pedagogical view of how to engage teacher and student thought, feeling, and action in ways that foster conversation for combating white supremacy in English education across schools and society"--
Learn how to disrupt the reproduction of white supremacy in curriculum and instruction. This volume directly confronts persistent iterations of whiteness in English education through advancing antiracist dispositions and practices. Readers will find a variety of practical implementations of teaching and learning in English Language Arts, English literacy, and English as a Second Language. Chapter authors are educators who describe various teaching projects located in K–12 and teacher education contexts. Each chapter includes a dialogic reaction by an acclaimed and experienced scholar to further extend thought around complex themes. Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education encourages a more pedagogical view of how to engage teacher and student thought, feeling, and action in ways that combat white supremacy in English education across schools and society.
Book Features:
- Illustrates how and why whiteness enables racism and argues that racism harms both students of color and white students.
- Describes teaching projects from K–12 and teacher education classrooms that include dialogical exchanges with racially and intellectually diverse scholars.
- Addresses a range of topics, including using children’s books and young adult literature, teaching emergent multilingual students, developing curriculum, and preparing teachers.
- Provokes readers to imagine nuanced teaching and learning that invites students into antiracist values and dispositions that resist white supremacy.
Arvustused
"Although this text addresses an issue that has long been a concern in education, the application of reader response theory to the ongoing issue is valuable. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty."CHOICE
IntroductionPauli Badenhorst, Samuel Jaye Tanner, and Justine Grinage
Section 1:
Teachers Reckoning with the Whiteness of English Education
Reopening Racial Wounds: Whiteness, Affect, and Race Dialogues in the English
ClassroomJustin Grinage
Engaging Awareness of Race and Racism in Early-Career ELA Teaching: Interview
with a High School TeacherAdison Godfrey and Pauli Badenhorst
There is Sickness in the Soul: Considering Soul-Centered Questions While
Reckoning With Whiteness in ELA Education (Commentary)Jeanine Staples
Section 2:
Students Reckoning with the Whiteness of English Education
An Opportunity to Be Better: Whiteness Pedagogies in English
EducationSamuelJayeTanner
A Voice from an Inner Room: Using Personal Narrative Writing to Strengthen
the Racial Competency of White StudentsPaul F. Walsh
The Power of Writing in a Critical Examination of Whiteness (Commentary)Jill
Ewing Flynn
Section 3:
The Nuances of Reckoning with the Whiteness of English Education
Middle Grades English Language Arts, New South Classrooms, and The Prism of
White FemininityErin T. Miller, Laurie Dymes, and Spencer Salas
"Cool it for a bit": Navigating Antiracism in One Rural ContextKelsey R.
Jones-Greer
Reproduction and Contestation of White Habitus Among ELL TeachersJennaMin
Shim, Chelsea Escalante, Cynthia Helen Brock, and Cecelia J. Aragon
Reading Whiteness with a Little Help from Bakhtin (Commentary)
Timothy J. Lensmire
Section 4:
Writing and Discussion in Reckoning with the Whiteness of English Education
Characterizing Whiteness: Using Critical Whiteness Pedagogies to Teach BIPOC
YA LiteratureErin Stutelberg and Heidi J. Jones
The Slippery Spaciousness of Whiteness: Critical Creative Writing Pedagogy in
Teacher EducationElise Toedt and Anna Schick
Resisting Whiteness While Facilitating Discussions in Student SeminarsAbby
Rombalski
The Necessity of a Suspect Mindset: Interrupting Whiteness Through Literature
Study, Creative Writing, and Whole Group Talk (Commentary)Carlin
Borscheim-Black and Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides
About the Editors and Authors
Pauli Badenhorst is assistant professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Samuel Jaye Tanner is an associate professor of English Education at The University of Iowa. Justin Grinage is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota
