Teaching English today : advocating change in the secondary curriculum / Barrie R.C. Barrell ... [et al.] editors ; foreword by Patrick Shannon. - New York : Teachers College Press, c2004. - viii, 158 p. ; 24 cm. - Language and literacy series . - Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chat room musings: English teaching in a changing world / Gordon M. Pradl and John S. Mayher -- A history not yet past: where then is here? / John Willinsky -- Uncertain relations: English and cultural studies / Robert Morgan -- Passionate contracts: discursive contradiction and struggle in secondary English teacher education programs / Ursula A. Kelly -- "Words is Changin' every day": language and literacy in the urban contact zone / Maryann Dickar -- Tightrope walkers: the balancing and unbalancing act of teaching writing / Jill Kedersha McClay -- "Trying to bend the tree when it is already grown": spanning the spectrum of African Diaspora Englishes in the college writing classroom / Carmen Kynard -- Developing critical responses to stories in many media / Margaret Mackey -- Words and windows: using technology for critical literacy / Roberta F. Hammett -- Context, text, and tests: issues in English assessment in the United States / Sarah W. Beck.

0807744786 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807744789 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807744778 (pbk.) 9780807744772 (pbk.)

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English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.
English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Canada.
Language arts (Secondary)--Curricula--United States.
Language arts (Secondary)--Curricula--Canada.

LB 1631 / .T283 2004