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9780809326600

African American Literacies Unleashed

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  • ISBN13:

    9780809326600

  • ISBN10:

    0809326604

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-12-13
  • Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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Summary

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students.African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroomapproaches the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and it attempts to change current pedagogical approaches with a highly readable combination of traditional academic discourse and personal narratives. Realizing that composition is a particular form of social practice that validates some students and excludes others, Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner acknowledge that many African American students come to writing and composition classrooms with talents that are not appreciated. To empower and inform practitioners, administrators, teacher educators, and researchers, Ball and Lardner provide knowledge and strategies that will help unleash the potential of African American students and help them imagine new possibilities for their successes as writers. African American Literacies Unleashedasserts that necessary changes in theory and practice can be addressed by refocusing attention from teachers' knowledge deficits to the processes through which teachers engage information relevant to culturally informed pedagogy. Providing strategies for unlearning racism in the classroom and changing the status quo, this volume stresses the development and maintenance of a real sense of teaching efficacyteachers' beliefs in their abilities to connect with and work effectively with all studentsand reflective optimismteachers' informed expectations that all students have the potential to succeed.

Author Biography

Arnetha Ball is an associate professor of education at Stanford University. She is the author of Carriers of the Torch and coeditor of Black Linguistics and Bahktinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning.



Ted Lardner is an associate professor of English at Cleveland State University and codirector of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. His poetry and essays have been published in LUNA, Pleiades, and other journals.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Keith Gilyard
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
How We Got Here
1(32)
Knowledge and Efficacy: Teachers' Dispositions Toward Classroom Change
33(35)
The Pedagogies of Others: Community-Based Organizations as Models for Participatory Literacy
68(34)
Self-Efficacy and Reflective Optimism: Moving Beyond Internalization
102(41)
Playin' the Dozens: Unleashing Students' Literate Possibilities
143(33)
Where We Go from Here
176(23)
Works Cited 199(12)
Index 211

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