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Special Issues Series
Special Issues, Volume 1: Racial Literacy
Implications for Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Policy
NEW
Detra Price-Dennis, editor There’s a great deal of uncertainty, discord, and increased volatility across a number of critical institutions in our society. Each day on social media and TV news outlets we read, listen to, and/or watch events unfold that are linked to political, economic, health, legal, and educational inequities that can be traced to racist ideologies and practices. Public schools across the country are being subjected to pending state legislation and new laws that seek to limit how race—among other markers of identity—can be taught in K–12 classrooms.
This first volume of Special Issues: Racial Literacy gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of racial literacy and its implications for curriculum, pedagogy, and policy. Editor Detra Price-Dennis has curated this collection to show how teaching from a racial literacy perspective is in conversation with antiracist, culturally responsive, equity-oriented frameworks that uplift curriculum design and instructional strategies. These articles can help educators (re) imagine the classroom as a space that supports the development of racial literacy skills and practices with their students.
171 pp. | 2021 | Grades K–College | ISBN 9780814144923 | ebook: ISBN 9780814144930 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember
Special Issues, Volume 1: Critical Media Literacy
Bringing Lives to Texts
NEW
Tom Liam Lynch, editor Critical media literacy is not a single star burning brightly in the night sky. It is more like a constellation, a collection of stars that tell a story about how educators engage with young people through an array of communicative modes in the spirit of inquiry, society, and action. Edited by Tom Liam Lynch, this collection of essays drawn from NCTE’s many journals provides an excellent starting point for teachers who want to bring critical media literacy into their K–12 and college classrooms.
178 pp. | 2021 | Grades K–College | ISBN 9780814144893 | ebook: ISBN 9780814144916 $23.96 member/$29.99 nonmember
Cultivating Healing-Centered ELA Classrooms
NEW
Sakeena Everett, editor We live in a time that requires attention to trauma. Educators and students are learning how to move forward in this precarious time, which in many ways has amplified preexisting health, racial, economic, and educational inequalities. The pandemic has shaped us in ways we have yet to understand fully, but we know we must adapt and heal together. It is imperative that K–college educators not only consider trauma-informed teaching, but also healing-centered teaching practices. As we think through ways to support the most harmed people in our teaching and learning communities, we will move closer to a more equitable and just healing-centered profession. This first volume of Special Issues: Trauma-Informed Teaching gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of trauma-informed teaching and its recent developments in the field. Editor Sakeena Everett has curated this collection to show how to help K–college teachers integrate the most up-to-date approaches to trauma-informed teaching into their particular classroom environments. In this volume, you will find valuable insights, diverse perspectives, innovative and exciting pedagogies, as well as thought-provoking research methodologies that engage micro- and macro-level supports you need to get started today.
