This valuable resource offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary school English instruction. The authors provide concrete strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the mediatheir peer, school, family, romance, community, workplace, and virtual worlds. You will find numerous examples of middle and high school students using various literacy tools (language, genres, narratives, signs, multimedia, and drama) to study, represent, critique, and transform these worlds. Rather than simply studying about literacy practices, this new framework shows how students learn best through active participation driven by a need to critically examine and promote changes in their social worlds.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Language And Literacy .

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published in 2001 by Teachers' College Press .

Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus of English Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. Faythe Beauchemin is Assistant Professor of Childhood Education, University of Arkansas, USA.