Texts, Talk … and Fear? English Language Arts Teachers Negotiate Social Justice Teaching

Delane Bender-Slack takes on the important subject of teaching for social justice. Her article’s strength is in its uncompromising look at complex, often misinterpreted teaching challenges. This article focuses on actual teachers working for social justice in their classrooms. Working from a strongtheoretical framework, she pushes us in new directions to understand the growing complexities in teaching for social justice.