Teaching English today : advocating change in the secondary curriculum / Barrie R.C. Barrell [and others] editors ; foreword by Patrick Shannon.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors: Barrell, Barrie R. C. (Barrie Robert Christopher), 1946-
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2004], ©2004.
Series:Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
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Physical Description:viii, 158 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Chat room musings: English teaching in a changing world / Gordon M. Pradl and John S. Mayher
  • A history not yet past: where then is here? / John Willinsky
  • Uncertain relations: English and cultural studies / Robert Morgan
  • Passionate contracts: discursive contradiction and struggle in secondary English teacher education programs / Ursula A. Kelly
  • "Words is Changin' every day": language and literacy in the urban contact zone / Maryann Dickar
  • Tightrope walkers: the balancing and unbalancing act of teaching writing / Jill Kedersha McClay
  • "Trying to bend the tree when it is already grown": spanning the spectrum of African Diaspora Englishes in the college writing classroom / Carmen Kynard
  • Developing critical responses to stories in many media / Margaret Mackey
  • Words and windows: using technology for critical literacy / Roberta F. Hammett
  • Context, text, and tests: issues in English assessment in the United States / Sarah W. Beck.