So What?
Dialogue about the Limits of Teacher Educators and their Curriculum
Keywords:
sociopolitical, book club, teacher education, democracy, critical pedagogyAbstract
In this currere piece, two authors engage in a duoethnographic process of dialagoue about a cross-insitutional bookclub addressing sociopolitical issues in education. The limits of texts, bookclubs, and teacher educator instruction are raised while the authors locate themseves in the sociopolitical consciousness raising process.
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Twomey, S. (2007). Reading “woman”: Book club pedagogies and the literary imagination. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 50 (5). 398-407. https://doi.org/10.1598/JAAL.50.5.6
Barry, D. (2022, August 10). One small step for democracy in a “live free or die” town. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/us/croydon-free-state-politics.html?searchResultPosition=3
Beach, R. & Yussen, S. (2011). Practices of productive adult book clubs. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 55(2). 121-131. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41309667
Bowers-Campbell, J. (2011). Take it out of class: Exploring virtual literature circles. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(8). 557-567. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41827725
Burns, B. (1998). Changing the classroom climate with literature circles. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 42(2). 124-129. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40016796
Cantrell, S. C. (2002). Promoting talk: A framework for reading discussions in teacher education courses. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 45(7). 642-651.
Daniels, H. (2002). Literature circles: Voice and choice in book clubs and reading groups (2nd ed.). Stenhouse Publishers.
Desmond, M. (2016). Evicted: Poverty and profit in the American city. Broadway Books.
Doyle, G. (2020). Untamed. The Dial Press.
Freire, P. & Macedo, D. (1987). Reading the word and the world. Bergin & Garvey.
Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom: Ethics, democracy, and civic courage. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Hill, M.L. (2017). Nobody: Casualties of America's war on the vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and beyond. Atria Paperback.
hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as a practice of freedom. Routledge.
Horton, M. & Freire, P. (1990). We make the road by walking: Conversations on education and social change. Temple University Press.
Kincheloe, J.L. (2008) Critical pedagogy primer, 2nd ed. Peter Lang.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2006). “Yes, but how do we do it?” Practicing culturally relevant pedagogy. In
Ladson-Billings, G. (2014). Culturally relevant pedagogy 2.0: A. K. A. the remix. Harvard Educational Review, 84(1), 74–84. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.84.1.p2rj131485484751
McGinley, W., Conley, K., & White, J. W. (2000). Pedagogy for a few: Book club discussion guides and the modern book industry as literature teacher. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 44(3). 204-214. https//www.jstor.org/stable/40012178
Pinar, W. (1975). The method of currere. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.
Pinar, W. F. (2019). What is curriculum theory? (3rd ed.). Routledge.
Rosenblatt, L. M. (1978). The reader, the text, the poem: The transactional theory of the literary work. Southern Illinois University Press.
Sawyer, R. D. & Norris, J. (2013). Duoethnography: Understanding qualitative research. Oxford.
Scharber, C. (2009). Online book clubs: Bridges between old and new literacies practices. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(5). 433-437. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27639211
Sims Bishop, R. (1990). Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. Perspectives, 1 (3), ix–xi.
Twomey, S. (2007). Reading “woman”: Book club pedagogies and the literary imagination. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 50 (5). 398-407. https://doi.org/10.1598/JAAL.50.5.6
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