Critical English Education - by Ernest Morell & Nicole Mirra & Antero Garcia & Cati de Los Ríos & Jamila Lyiscott (Paperback)

About the Book

Critical English education scholars and practitioners must defend the legitimacy and impact of English as a discipline while simultaneously wrestling with the inequitable distribution of achievement in reading and writing across race, class, gender, and geography. This book features senior scholars and brave new voices in the field of English language arts reflecting on forces that shape research and practice in the teaching of English within the current political and educational climate. The volume also examines the latest research and the most innovative practices in the teaching of writing, reading, and literary theory, and the uses of popular culture and other media. Critical English Education is a major entry into critical English scholarship and an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand English education's current moment.

Book Synopsis

Critical English Education explores an ongoing movement in literacy studies that has fundamentally transformed scholarship and classroom instruction by situating reading and writing as creative practices that young people harness to understand themselves, analyze current social realities, and bring new civic possibilities into being.

This book provides important context for the conditions of today's English classrooms. It features senior scholars and brave new voices in the field of English language arts reflecting on forces that shape research and practice in the teaching of English within the current political and educational climate--forces such as multicultural, sociocultural, postmodern, and critical theories; critical and culturally responsive pedagogies; and the discourses of multilingualism and translanguaging. The volume also examines the latest research and the most innovative practices in the teaching of writing, reading, and literary theory, and the uses of popular culture and other media.

Critical English Education is a major entry into critical English scholarship and an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the English education landscape.

Featuring essays by Nicole Mirra, Ernest Morrell, and Antero Garcia; Ofelia García and Kahdeidra Monét Martin; Gloria Ladson-Billings; Sabine Little and Jennifer Rowsell; Maisha T. Winn; Limarys Caraballo; Cati de los Ríos; Mollie V. Blackburn; Rubén González and Antero Garcia; Stephanie Toliver; Jamila Lyiscott; Laurence Tan; and Kris D. Gutiérrez.

About the Author

Jamila Lyiscott is an associate professor of social justice education and the founding co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research at UMass Amherst. She is the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom. Her research examines the liberatory capacity of Black language, racial healing, and youth-led activism. Lyiscott holds a faculty fellowship at the University of Notre Dame and is the recipient of the AERA Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award, the AERA Scholar-Activist & Community Advocacy Award, a Fulbright-Hays Award, and the CIES Emerging Scholar Award. Coupled with publications in leading academic journals, her publicly engaged scholarship has led to several invited media features including Hulu, NPR, BBC Radio, NowThis, Cosmopolitan, Spike Lee's "2 Fists Up," and her TED Talk, "3 Ways to Speak English," which has been viewed over 5 million times.