Standing for Literacy: Teaching in the Context of Change (Pardo, Highfield, Florio-Ruane)
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-61289-050-0 Price:$39.50 Title: Standing for Literacy Sub-title: Teaching in the Context of Change Editor(s): Laura Pardo, Kathy Highfield, and Susan Florio-Ruane Publish Date: October 2011 Pages: 154 Format: Cloth
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The case studies in this book, derived from qualitative research, offer an inside look at the professional lives and classrooms of five teachers. Each teacher is presented in a case study. In various ways, each works to provide equal treatment and access to knowledge of powerful literacy for all the students in his or her classroom. The five teachers do this work within the broader context of mandated reform of literacy education. Experienced teacher educators respond in dialogue with key themes and issues raised by the five cases. The volume thus privileges the voices of practitioners--voices easily absent in many of our nation's conversations about educational reform. We see teachers, both novice and experienced, working to juggle, reconcile, or transform political and administrative mandates (with their accompanying predetermined rubrics and resources) with their own knowledge, values, standards, and commitments to their students' learning. This book illuminates the extraordinary in the ordinary by looking closely at practitioners standing for literacy in the context of change. Contents: Foreword: Narrative Understanding in Turbulent Times, Linda Williams. Teachers Who Stand for Literacy: An Introduction, Laura Pardo, Kathy Highfield, and Susan Florio-Ruane. Redefining the Teacher's Place in K-8 Classrooms, Laura Pardo, Kathy Highfield, and Susan Florio-Ruane. Assessment--Case 1: Using Question Answer Relationships to Prepare Students for Standardized Testing, Kathy Highfield. Response: Tackling the Testing-Teaching Dilemma, Taffy Raphael. Diversity--Case 2: Honoring Identities and Learning in a Diverse Urban Elementary Classroom, Jodene Morrell. Response: Tensions and Harmonies: Exploring What Moves and Inspires Teachers Who Stand for Powerful Literacy, Laura Pardo. Critical Literacy--Case 3: We Don't Know How to Teach Those Kids! A Suburban Teacher Implements Critical Literacy with Urban Students, K. Dara Hill. Response: Identity and Change in the Cultural Practices of Elementary Classrooms, MariAnne George. Boundaries--Case 4: "Our Little Family": One Teacher's Literacy Instruction in a Climate of Reform, Laura Pardo. Response: Exploring Educational Aims, Passion, and Commitment, Cheryl Rosaen. Professional Community--Case 5: Inside-Out Teaching and the Freeing of Our Hands, Jennifer I. Berne. Response: Teacher Collaboration: Opening and Closing the Classroom Door. Standing Strong: Local Knowledge and Problem Solving in Times of Change, Susan Florio-Ruane. About the Authors. Author Index. Subject Index.