This book offers a rare examination of the secondary English curriculum, focusing on current trends and looking pragmatically at reform initiatives. Providing both a review and a heads-up about what's new - or what should be new - in English classrooms, this accessible text: Features essays from well-known educators and researchers, in the United States and Canada, who provide insight and offer a wide-range of perspectives on todayOs secondary English language arts education. Challenges the field to re-conceptualize its purpose and value while urging language arts educators to rethink their practice. Focuses on contemporary issues, including assessment, multiculturalism, critical literacy, expanding definitions of text and literacy, technology in the classroom, censorship, the power of mass media, and much more. Raises pertinent questions about mandated curricula, high-stakes testing, conventional teaching practices, and teacher preparation.
| ISBN: | 9780807744789 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2004 |
| Author: | Barrie R C Barrell |
| Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 158 pages |
| Series: | Language and Literacy Series |
| Genres: |
Teaching of a specific subject Educational: First / native language |
This book offers a rare examination of the secondary English curriculum, focusing on current trends and looking pragmatically at reform initiatives. Providing both a review and a heads-up about what's new - or what should be new - in English classrooms, this accessible text: Features essays from well-known educators and researchers, in the United States and Canada, who provide insight and offer a wide-range of perspectives on todayOs secondary English language arts education. Challenges the field to re-conceptualize its purpose and value while urging language arts educators to rethink their practice. Focuses on contemporary issues, including assessment, multiculturalism, critical literacy, expanding definitions of text and literacy, technology in the classroom, censorship, the power of mass media, and much more. Raises pertinent questions about mandated curricula, high-stakes testing, conventional teaching practices, and teacher preparation.
Teaching English Today features in the following genres: Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: First / native language
Teaching English Today is available in Hardback
Teaching English Today was written by Barrie R C Barrell and published by Teachers College Press
Teaching English Today has 158 pages
Yes it is part of Language and Literacy Series series