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9780807741023

Inquiry-Based English Instruction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780807741023

  • ISBN10:

    0807741027

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Teachers College Pr
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Summary

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 media, their 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.

Author Biography

Jamie Myers in an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education at Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Jerome C. Harste
Acknowledgments xi
Constructing Social Worlds: An Introduction
1(16)
PART I: A MODEL FOR INQUIRY-BASED ENGLISH INSTRUCTION
A Practice-Oriented Curriculum for Inquiry into Social Worlds
17(9)
A Social Worlds Unit in Ninth-Grade English
26(25)
Inquiry Strategies: Immersing; Identifying Concerns, Issues, and Dilemmas; and Contextualizing
51(16)
Critiquing and Transforming Social Worlds
67(17)
Tools for Representing Social Worlds
84(19)
PART II: RESOURCES FOR STUDYING SOCIAL WORLDS
Peer Worlds
103(17)
School and Sports Worlds
120(15)
Family and Romance Worlds
135(16)
Community and Workplace Worlds
151(14)
Virtual Worlds
165(18)
Conclusion: Critical Consciousness Through Inquiry into Social Worlds
183(6)
References 189(10)
Index 199(12)
About the Authors 211

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