Sites of Possibility: Critical Dialogue Across Educational Settings (Jennings, Jewett, Laman, Souto-
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 1-57273-969-X Price:$27.95 Title: Sites of Possibility Sub-title: Critical Dialogue Across Educational Settings Author(s): Louise B. Jennings, Pamela C. Jewett, Tasha T. Laman, Mariana V. Souto-Manning and Jennifer L. Wilson Publish Date: July 2010 Pages: 268 Format: Paper
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This volume examines how people engage in critical literacy through their talk and interactions. The book is organized around critical dialogue – dialogue that involves identifying and interrogating the often invisible inequitable structures and policies that shape our lives and taking action toward new, more equitable possibilities. Analyses focus on the discursive work of teachers, youth, and adult literacy learners in various contexts questioning and reframing important social issues. The authors illustrate the challenges of facilitating and studying critical dialogue as well as the opportunities it offers for teacher education, professional development, classroom pedagogy, and non-formal education. Bridging theory, method, and practice, Sites of Possibility also addresses important questions regarding the study and practice of transformative education in general and critical dialogue in particular. Contents: Preface, Barbara Comber. Introduction: Critical Dialogue, Louise B. Jennings, Pamela C. Jewett, Tasha Tropp Laman, Mariana Souto-Manning, and Jennifer L. Wilson. PART I. “They Say We’re the Land of Tolerance”: Using Critical Dialogue to Interrogate Issues of Immigration in a Middle-Level Classroom, Jennifer L. Wilson. Addressing Oppressive Discourses and Images of Youth: Sites of Possibility, Louise B. Jennings, DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, and Sheri C. Hardee. Critical Narrative Analysis of Classroom Discourse: Culture Circles as a Framework for Empowerment and Social Action, Mariana Souto-Manning. The Discursive Production of Homelessness: Teachers’ Discursive Constructions, Deconstructions, and Reconstructions, Tasha Tropp Laman and Mitzi Lewison. “This Culture Stuff—Oh!”: Children’s Literature, Critical Literacy, and Discourse Models, Pamela C. Jewett. Research as Social Action: Constructing Critical Dialogue as a Complex Social and Educational Phenomenon, Audra Skukauskaité and Judith L. Green. PART II. Challenge of Dialogue in Teacher Education, JoBeth Allen. Dimensions of Discourse and Identity, Betsy Rymes. Critical Dialogue Across Educational Contexts, Pamela C. Jewett, Tasha Tropp Laman, Mariana Souto-Manning, Jennifer L. Wilson, and Louise B. Jennings. Author Index. Subject Index.