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    Classroom Talk for Social Change
    Critical Conversations in English Language Arts

    Melissa Schieble (Author), Amy Vetter (Author), Kahdeidra Monét Martin (Author), Rebecca Rogers (Foreword by)

    9780807763483

    Paperback / softback, published 14 February 2020

    160 pages
    22.6 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.23 kg

    Learn how to foster critical conversations in English language arts classrooms. This guide encourages teachers to engage students in noticing and discussing harmful discourses about race, gender, and other identities. The authors take readers through a framework that includes knowledge about power, a critical learner stance, critical pedagogies, critical talk moves, and vulnerability. The text features in-depth classroom examples from six secondary English language arts classrooms. Each chapter offers specific ways in which teachers can begin and sustain critical conversations with their students, including the creation of teacher inquiry groups that use transcript analysis as a learning tool.

    Book Features:

    • Strategies that educators can use to facilitate conversations about critical issues.
    • In-depth classroom examples of teachers doing this work with their students.
    • Questions, activities, and resources that foster self-reflection.
    • Tools for engaging in transcript analysis of classroom conversations.
    • Suggestions for developing inquiry groups focused on critical conversations.

      • Contents
      • Foreword Rebecca Rogers ix
      • Acknowledgments 
        xi
      • 1. 
        Introduction 
        1
      • Why Do We Need to Have Critical Conversations in Schools? 
        1
      • Book Overview 
        3
      • 2. 
        What Do Critical Conversations Look Like in Schools? 
        11
      • How are Critical Conversations Generative in ELA Classrooms? 
        13
      • Theories that Support Critical Conversations  
        16
      • Tensions of Critical Conversations 
        19
      • 3. 
        Building Knowledge About Power and Privilege: Confronting Dominant Narratives 
        23
      • Are All Perspectives Equally Valid? 
        27
      • Dominant Narratives of Gender and Sexuality 
        28
      • The Dominant Narrative of Individualism 
        30
      • Critical Conversations in Action: Intersections of Gender and Individualism  
        31
      • 4. 
        Engaging a Critical Learner Stance Through Racial Literacy 
        36
      • Practicing Critical Self-Reflection 
        36
      • What Is Critical Consciousness?  
        38
      • Engaging a Critical Learner Stance Through Racial Literacy 
        41
      • Strategies for Practicing a Critical Learner Stance 
        47
      • Try It Out: Engaging a Critical Learner Stance to Change Teaching Practice 
        52
      • 5. 
        Preparing Students for Critical Conversations: Creating a Critical Space 
        54
      • “
        Reading”
        Classroom Spaces with a Critical Lens 
        54
      • Establishing a Classroom Culture for Critical Conversations 
        56
      • Negotiating Tension and Modeling Repair 
        66
      • 6. 
        Making Meaning During Critical Conversations 
        73
      • Humanizing 
        74
      • Problematizing 
        78
      • Resistance During Critical Conversations 
        81
      • 7. 
        Sustaining Critical Conversations Through Critical Talk Moves  
        90
      • Critical Talk Moves 
        92
      • Critical Conversations: Carson’
        s Critical Talk Moves 
        98
      • Building Interactional Awareness about Critical Talk Moves 
        104
      • 8. 
        Studying Critical Conversations in Teacher Inquiry Groups Using Transcripts 
        106
      • What are Inquiry Groups? 
        106
      • What Did Teachers Say They Learned in the Inquiry Groups? 
        110
      • What Did Teachers Say They Learned from Analyzing Classroom Talk? 
        111
      • Final Thoughts 
        122
      • References 
        125
      • Index  
        135
      • About the Authors 
        145

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