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Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast

By: Amy Johnson Lachuk

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Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast

By: Amy Johnson Lachuk

Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast providesdetailed descriptions of contemporary African American experiences with literacy and education in the rural South. In doing so, this book extends current understandings of sociocultural perspectives on literacy by illustrating how literacy practice is morally valenced, embodied, and narrative in quality. Johnson Lachuk argues that meaningful and ethical literacy instruction engages with perspectives that are embedded within a social and cultural community—that is, since literacy is linked to greater social mobility through institutional access for many persons, it is educators’ ethical responsibility to ensure that learners have the literacy knowledge required to do so. Recommended for scholars of literacy, education, and sociology.

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137

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Lexington Books

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ISBN 10

1498511937

ISBN 13

9781498511933

Collaboration, Narrative, and Inquiry That Honor the Complexity of Teacher Education

By: Amy Johnson Lachuk,Karen Rut Gísladóttir,Tricia DeGraff

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Collaboration, Narrative, and Inquiry That Honor the Complexity of Teacher Education

By: Amy Johnson Lachuk,Karen Rut Gísladóttir,Tricia DeGraff

Collaboration, Narrative, and Inquiry that Honor the Complexity of Teacher Education presents a narrative exploration of three teacher educators' collaborative and transnational inquiry into their practices. Through carefully selected narratives, the authors describe how they enacted a practice-based approach in their teacher education courses. The authors present challenges and complexities they encountered as teacher educators in trying to prepare preservice teacher candidates for the realities of the classroom.

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149

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IAP

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ISBN 10

164802209X

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9781648022098

Observing Teacher Identities through Video Analysis

Practice and Implications

By: Amy Vetter,Melissa Schieble

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Observing Teacher Identities through Video Analysis

Practice and Implications

By: Amy Vetter,Melissa Schieble

Teaching is often seen as an identity process, with teachers constructing and enacting their identities through daily interactions with students, parents and colleagues. This volume explores how conducting video analysis helps teachers gain valuable perspectives on their own identities and improve classroom practice over time. This form of interactional awareness fosters reflection and action on creating classroom conditions that encourage equitable learning. The volume follows preservice English teachers as they examine video records of their practice during student teaching, and how the evidence impacts their development as literacy teachers of diverse adolescents. By applying an analytic framework to video analysis, the authors demonstrate how novice teachers use positioning theory to transform their own identity performance in the classroom. Education scholars, teachers and professional developers will greatly benefit from this unique perspective on teacher identity work.

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