Book Talk: Classroom Talk for Social Change
Join the PhD Program in Urban Education for this book talk on School Teachers with Melissa Schieble, Amy Vetter and Kahdeidra Monét Martin on their new book Classroom Talk for Social Change: Critical Conversations in English Language Arts.
Melissa Schieble’s scholarship focuses on how discourses about race, class, gender, and sexuality are depicted in literature for youth; she also examines the dynamics of teachers’ and students’ responses to literature for youth by studying their classroom discourse. Her work highlights the ways critical engagement with children’s and young adult literature offers one of the most powerful learning opportunities for building teachers’ and students’ critical consciousness and racial literacy. Prof. Schieble’s scholarship has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and she has published more than thirty articles and book chapters and co-authored two books; her work has been published in leading journals including English Education, Linguistics and Education, and Journal of Teacher Education. Prof. Schieble’s scholarship has also received several awards, the most recent including the 2021 James N. Britton Award from NCTE for the article, “Promoting empathetic reading with Between Shades of Gray through a global blogging project” published in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Prof. Schieble teaches courses in English education in the School of Education at Hunter College and qualitative methodologies and discourse analysis in the Urban Education program at The Graduate Center. Classroom Talk for Social Change was awarded The Divergent Book Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research in 2021.
Dr. Amy Vetter is professor of English education at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She teaches undergraduate courses in teaching practices and curriculum of English and literacy in the content area, and graduate courses in youth literacies, teacher research, and qualitative research. Her areas of research interest are literacy and identity, positioning theory, and teacher research. She is co-director of Gate City Writes, a writing collaborative for K-12 students and teachers. Before her job in higher education, she taught all levels of tenth and twelfth grade English.
Dr. Kahdeidra Monét Martin holds a Bachelor’s degree in African & African American Studies with a minor in Linguistics from Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Urban Education from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and researches African American Language, literacy, inclusive teaching, and belonging in schools. Currently, Dr. Martin works at two of her alma maters, serving as a Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford and a Scholar in Residence at The Chapin School.
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