Product Description: Countering the increased standardization of English language arts instruction requires recognizing and fostering students’ unique identity construction across different social and cultural contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity construction, this book posits that students construct multiple identities through use of five identity practices: adopting alternative perspectives, exploring connections across people and texts, negotiating identities across social worlds, developing agency through critical analysis, and reflecting on long-term identity trajectories...read more

Product Description: This book reviews the shifting conceptions of writing and revision, noting the ways in which views of knowledge and knowing shape teaching and research. Fitzgerald, as a reading and writing researcher, recognizes that how we revise is shaped by how we read and respond to our unfolding texts...read more

Product Description: I grew up in Washington, DC, in the public housing system. The most positive influences in helping to keep me on the right path were the Police Boys Club and DC Rec Department. I've always felt it was important to give to young children what was given to me in my youth.

Product Description: This book examines how working-class high school students’ identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds...read more

Product Description: The Internet offers enormous possibilities for teachers who include discussion of media arts in their courses. However, without expert guidance, it is difficult for instructors to know how to use the Web most effectively. Here, at last, is the resource that teachers need.

Product Description: This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. A concise handbook of paediatrics, written in the style and format of the popular " Pocket Essentials" series, edited by Kumar & Clark...read more

Examines current methods for teaching literature to middle and high school students, covering methods based on the social constructivist and socio-cultural theory of learning.

Product Description: Twenty-four leading literacy researchers contribute 17 chapters describing how they apply particular disciplinary perspectives to their research. The second edition reflects significant shifts in the prevailing disciplinary and theoretical perspectives shaping literacy research and in the methodological approaches employed, since publication of th...read more

This resource offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary English instruction. The authors provide strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 1993, NCTE, softcover, 207 pp.

Product Description: Since 1996, Elspeth Thompson has chronicled the successes and disasters that beset her tiny London garden and her allotment in a regular column in the Sunday Telegraph. In this second instalment of columns, Elspeth charts the trials of gardening in the country at weekends, having taken on a potter's cottage in Winchelsea, East Sussex, the development of her allotment and the onggoing joys of ther itny back garden in Brixton...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From Introduction: In this introduction, we will briefly chart the trends over two decades of composition research. Particular attention will be given to the theoretical assumptions underlying such research. We will also attempt to define the domain of composition research more fully here, in order to provide a context for the research summaries and reports in this book...read more