Critical encounters in high school English : teaching literary theory to adolescents /
Deborah Appleman.
- 2nd ed.
- New York : Urbana, Ill. : Teachers College Press ; National Council of Teachers of English, c2009.
- xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Language and literacy series .
- Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.
What we teach and why : contemporary literary theory and adolescents -- Prisms of possibilities : introducing multiple perspectives -- The lens of reader response : the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy -- What's class got to do with it? : reading literature through the lens of privilege and social class -- The social construction of gender : a lens of one's own -- Columbus did what? : postcolonialism in the literature classroom -- Deconstruction : postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student -- Lenses and learning styles : acknowledging student plurality with theoretical plurality -- Critical encounters : reading the world.
English literature--Study and teaching (Secondary) Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Study and teaching (Secondary) American literature--Study and teaching (Secondary) Literature--Study and teaching (Secondary) Criticism--English-speaking countries.