Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education demonstrates how critical approaches to language and dialects are an essential part of social justice work in literacy education.

Autorentext

AMANDA J. GODLEY, Ph.D., is Professor of English Education and Language, Literacy and Culture at the University of Pittsburgh. A former English teacher, she researches issues of equity and literacy learning in high school English classrooms. JEFFREY REASER, Ph.D., is Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he directs the secondary English education program and serves as Associate Director of the Language and Life Project. His work includes the award-winning book Talkin Tar Heel and Dialects at School.

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List of Tables - Foreword: Moving beyond Uncritical, Conformist, and Assimilationist Models of Language Pedagogy - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Critical Language Pedagogy Curriculum - Study Design - Teachers' Learning about Dialects, Instruction, Power, and Privilege - Racial and Regional Differences in How Preservice Teachers Respond to Critical Language Pedagogy - Conclusions and Recommendations - Index.