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The Hands of God at Work

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

This book explores how Indonesian writers circulate knowledge between the Indonesian, English, and Arabic languages to enact Islamic gender justice. Drawing from ethnographic data collected in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, this book weaves a vivid account of how scholars at an Indonesian Ph.D. program in interreligious studies and three Muslim scholar-activists who studied there negotiate local and global audiences to activate knowledge where languages intersect. As these scholars engage in translingual praxis to make meaning at the borderlands where seemingly discrete knowledge traditions overlap, they rewrite socially-constructed divides between:

rationality and spirituality;
the mind and body;
female agency and Islam; and
English and non-Western meaning-making.

With its focus on the ways Indonesian scholar-activists negotiate power to enact social justice across intersecting languages, audiences, and contexts, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of translingual theory, transnational feminist rhetorics, and religious rhetorics.

Reading the World through Sports and Young Adult Literature

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Recommended and award-winning works of young adult literature featuring youth athletes—protagonists who are entangled not only in athletic competition but in the complications of life beyond the arena—offer secure footholds that students can use to explore contemporary sociopolitical issues.

With chapters addressing timely topics—including combating sexism and misogyny, protesting systemic racism, challenging homophobia, upending ableist perspectives, questioning narrow views of masculinity, reckoning with the dramatic toll of drug abuse, and more—this book supports practicing and prospective teachers in using sports and young adult literature to advance critical literacy and to help students reimagine the world as they know it. Other volume highlights include:

A foreword by sports journalist Kavitha A. Davidson
“Voices from the Field” contributions by educators
Options for book clubs
Options for film study
Recommended young adult literature titles

The omnipresence of sports around the globe, the long history of sports and politics colliding, and the recent publication of award-winning works of sports-related young adult literature combine to make this practical book a valuable resource for English language arts teachers, curriculum coordinators, and teacher educators alike.

Building Critical Literacy and Empathy with Graphic Novels

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Beginning with the assertion that educators can effectively use comics and graphic novels to develop readers’ critical literacy and empathy, DeHart explores the use of graphic novels across grade levels in a wide range of topics and themes. Taking When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed as a recurring focal text, DeHart argues that critical conversations can be opened up through well-chosen graphic novels. The book features recommended titles, insights from graphic novel authors and creators, and lesson ideas. Topics include:

Anti-Bias and Anti-Bullying
Autobiographical and Biographical Stories
Gender Representation
Diverse Abilities
Black Joy, Black Lives Matter, and Antiracist Pedagogy
Stories of (Im)migration and Removal
Indigenous Peoples/First Nations Stories
Mental Health and Grief

Queer Techné

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Queer Techné offers an intimate portrait of the practices, embodied knowledge, desires, and friendships that animate the technical innovation of early digital computing. This book explores archival materials from the Manchester University National Archive for the History of Computing, the site of some of the earliest digital computers and the first commercial computer. The book first analyzes in depth the technical and scientific writing of Alan Turing, who is often credited as an early inventor of computers. Then, recognizing that no inventor works alone, the book places Turing’s work in context, first in the network of queer friends who collaborated with Turing and then within a community of women whose labor forms the foundation of computing operations. As such, this project argues for the importance of embodied experiences, gender, and sexuality as central lenses for understanding technical communication as well as technical innovation.

Living English, Moving Literacies

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, Author Katie Silvester speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life during resettlement and in the context of waves of social change brought on by the end of their asylum. In the process, she demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies might:

Engage in literacy work across differences in culture, language, location, and experience;
Reconfigure and reformulate with others how we come to understand the literacy, hope, and violence in specific migrations; and
Use the stories that students bring with them to the classroom about their backgrounds to promote literacy learning.

The stories in this book aren’t just powerful; as the world becomes smaller and instructors everywhere find themselves teaching students of increasingly diverse backgrounds, this book provides insight for teaching literacies across cultural landscapes.

It All Adds Up: Joint Conference on Elementary ELA and Mathematics

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

NCTE at The Table: Leadership Carries Strong Voice in National Education Policy Conversation

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Unearthing Primary Sources: Children’s Voices from the 19th Century

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Seeking Sanctuary in Loving Fat: A Path to Transformation and Acceptance

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Disclaimer: Before you begin, we must warn you… We ain’t your traditional academics. We visionaries are birthing a new mindset where fat folx are unapologetically loved. We are Radical Black Love advocates, and we are transformational agents. We move with a moral imperative to create sanctuary spaces (Smith 2022) where fat folx can restore.

Courage and Love Through Cyphers: Cocreating Curriculum Centering Poetry

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Coauthored by Vera Naputi, AVID teacher and instructional coach at East High School (Madison, Wisconsin), and her students Jessica Ceballos, Randy Davis, Mahmoud Mahmoud, Gigi Rodriguez, Justin Russell, and Jamir Thompson

Notes From Underground: An Outlook on English Studies in the Two-Year College

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Open Possibilities with Open Resources

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Let’s Not Wait until November to Gather

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Candidates Announced for NCTE’S Spring Elections: Spring elections are here!

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Dear NCTE

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

National Writing Project Reflections

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Lifting up Talk as a Crucial Practice in the Writing Classroom

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The work of three secondary English teachers illustrates the power and risks of centering talk as a practice in writing classrooms.

Columns: Teaching in a Time of Censorship: Fostering a Culture of Reading to Reduce Fear and Build Community

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

This month’s column shares how one teacher reflected on the root causes of the parental scrutiny of her book choices and chose a path of communication and community building.

Who Does English? Learning from Youth and Professional Literarian Communities

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Two teacher educators explore how youth and literary professionals engage in the creation of new literary knowledge as a form of social justice.

We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: The Long (and Tedious) History of Reading Crisis

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Secondary English language arts teachers need to reclaim the complex and true stories of literacy as a resistance to the “science of reading” movement and new reading legislation across the US.

Columns: Telescopes: Possibilities in Yal: The Hoop Dreamcatcher

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Byron Graves discusses using his real life as inspiration for writing and how he hopes to see his debut novel, Rez Ball, centered in classrooms with adolescents.

Columns: The Future is Now: Conscious Classroom Choices: From TikTok Hot Spots to Mindful Social Connections

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

What does it mean to offer students a “seat at the table” in our English language arts classrooms now that our seats are back in closer proximity following the COVID emergency? Lisa Alexander reminds us of crucial ways to reflect on conscious classroom choices in relation to technology as we seek to strengthen classroom interactions.

Poetry: Notecards from the Pier

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“What Would Other Swifties Think?”: Multimodal Composing with Communities in Mind

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The authors describe an English language arts teacher’s approach to incorporating a design analysis framework to support multimodal composition for discourse communities.

Columns: Intersectional Lgbtqia+ Identities: “See All the Pieces”: Photovoice as a Means to Explore Intersectionality

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The author considers how photovoice, a visual research methodology, might support intersectional classroom discussions of LGBTQIA+ topics.

NCTE/ERIC Summaries & Sources-Media Literacy: Focus on Film

Wed, 01 Sep 1971 00:00:00 GMT