Inquiry-based English Instruction Engaging Students in Life and Literature (Language & Literacy) (Language and Literacy Series) - Softcover

Beach, Richard; Myers, Jamie

 
9780807741023: Inquiry-based English Instruction Engaging Students in Life and Literature (Language & Literacy) (Language and Literacy Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807741027 ISBN 13: 9780807741023
Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Richard Beach is Wallace Professor of English Education at the University of Minnesota. Jamie Myers is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education at Pennsylvania State University.

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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807741027
ISBN 13 
9780807741023
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224

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