This valuable resource offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary school English instruction. The authors provide concrete strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media--their peer, school, family, romance, community, workplace, and virtual worlds. You will find numerous examples of middle and high school students using various literacy tools (language, genres, narratives, signs, multimedia, and drama) to study, represent, critique, and transform these worlds. Rather than simply studying about literacy practices, this new framework shows how students learn best through active participation driven by a need to critically examine and promote changes in their social worlds.
- ISBN10 0807741035
- ISBN13 9780807741030
- Publish Date 8 June 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Teachers' College Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English