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Nicole Ann Amato – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore teacher candidates' response to young adult literature (prose and comics) featuring fat identified protagonists. The paper considers the textual and embodied resources readers use and reject when imagining and interpreting a character's body. This paper explores how readers' meaning making was…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Cartoons, Body Weight, Self Concept
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McKenzie, Cori Ann; Jarvie, Scott – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to draw from work in the field of English that questions the "limits of critique" (Felski, 2015) in order to consider the limits of critical literacy approaches to literature instruction. The study focuses on the relational and affective demands that resistant reading places on readers and texts.…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literacy Education
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Gholnecsar E. Muhammad; Glenda Mason Chisholm; Francheska D. Starks – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: This study aims to explore the textual and sociopolitical relationships of kinship writing as 15 youth wrote politically charged poetry while participating in a four-week summer writing program grounded in a Black studies curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: The authors explore the following research questions: How do youth writers…
Descriptors: Poetry, Creative Writing, African Americans, African American Culture
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Beauchemin, Faythe; Qin, Kongji – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: Affect is central to the process of teaching and learning. The recent affective turn in literacy education has further underscored its critical potential as an act of resistance against dehumanizing forces that impact students' schooling and life experiences (Dutro, 2019; Leander and Ehret, 2019). This article, taking up the notion of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Code Switching (Language), Play, Language Usage
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Richard Beach; Michelle M. Falter; Jennifer Jackson Whitley – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to make the case for the value of fostering collaborative sensemaking in responding to literature. Drawing on examples of classroom interactions in 6th-, 8th-, 11th- and 12th-grade classrooms, it proposes methods for teachers to foster collaborative sensemaking. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing…
Descriptors: Current Events, Literature, Grade 6, Grade 8
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Edward R. Curammeng; Daisy D. Lopez; Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2016
Purpose: Momentum around the institutionalization of Ethnic Studies in US K-12 classrooms is increasing. Opponents have argued that Ethnic Studies does not challenge students academically and prepare them for high stakes testing (Planas, 2012; Sanchez, 2007). Conversely, research continues to show ways Ethnic Studies contribute to students'…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Studies, Language Arts, Culturally Relevant Education