Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses

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Contents Preface 1. Reconstituting Teacher Education: Literacy, Critical Theories, and English Jory Brass 2. A Critical Sociocultural Approach to English Education Cynthia Lewis, Tracey Pyscher, Erin Stutelberg 3. Towards Critical Participatory Literacies through Digital Video Composition in an Elementary Literacy Capstone Course Jessica Zacher Pandya 4. Digital/Media Literacies in a Media Literacy and a Digital Writing Methods Course Richard Beach 5. Performance Pedagogies in Literacy Methods: Emergence, Embodiment, and Critical Practices Carmen Liliana Medina, Linda Skidmore Coggin, Gustave John Weltsek 6. Working toward Dialogically Organized Instruction through Video-Based Response and Revision Samantha Caughlan and Mary M. Juzwik 7. A Critical Resource Orientation to Literacy Assessment through a Stance of Solidarity Gerald Campano, Katrina Bartow Jacobs, Lan Ngo 8. Communities of Practice: Bridging the Gap between Methods Courses and Secondary Schools James Cercone 9. Synthesizing Formal and Experiential Concepts in a Service-Learning Course Peter Smagorinsky, Lindy L. Johnson, Christopher M. Clayton 10. Generative Critical Pedagogy in English Language Arts Methods for Urban Schools Tonya Perry 11. Learning to Teach Diverse Learners in a Writing Pedagogies Class Joyce Meier, Yunjeong Choi, Ellen Cushman 12. A Trauma Studies Lens on Writing Methods: Crafting a Critical, Affective, Practice-Based Pedagogy Elizabeth Dutro, Ashley Cartun 13. Critical Literary Theory in a Literature Methods Class Deborah Appleman 14. A Cultural Studies Approach to Literature Methods Allen Webb 15. Talking Policy in a Language Arts Curriculum Course for Reading Specialists Patrick Shannon Contributors Index