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Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language

Pathways Toward Advocacy-Focused Teaching

Althier M. Lazar, Kaitlin K. Moran, Shoshanna Edwards-Alexander

Publication Date: December 22, 2023

Pages: 160

Series: Language and Literacy Series

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This book shows literacy professionals how to develop the dispositions and actions associated with advocacy-focused teaching. While portraits of culturally conscious literacy teachers are now readily available, becoming such a teacher continues to be a challenge. Drawing from 60+ years of experience working with teacher candidates and teachers in the city of Philadelphia, the authors argue that becoming an advocacy-focused literacy teacher requires making moral commitments to students and developing professional competencies that fuse literacy, language, and equity studies. Recognizing that educators can be overwhelmed trying to match the realities they face daily with the theory behind good practice, Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language packs a lot of big ideas into one readable, concise book that is perfect for use in literacy methods courses. The text includes definitions and examples of equity concepts, relatable teacher vignettes, and “Pause and Reflect” boxes to encourage reflection and classroom conversation.

Book Features:

  • Examines the central problems of students’ disconnection with school, spirit murdering, and the teacher education gap.
  • Looks at inequities that have become normalized in classrooms and schools through standardized testing, literacy teaching routines and structures, and deficit-laced language about students and families.
  • Discusses literacies and languages as cultural practices and the need to be vigilant about the linguistic violence that occurs when students’ languages are delegitimized.
  • Describes critically and culturally centered teaching frameworks.
  • Provides vivid examples of advocacy-focused teaching.

Author+

Althier M. Lazar is a professor of education at Saint Joseph’s University. Her books include Culturally Sustaining Literacy Pedagogies, Schools of Promise for Multilingual Students, Bridging Literacy and Equity, and Practicing What We Teach. Kaitlin K. Moran is an assistant professor of teacher education at Saint Joseph's University. Shoshanna Edwards-Alexander is an affiliate faculty member of sociology, education, and gender studies at Saint Joseph's University.

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Connecting Equity, Literacy, and Language
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Critical Encounters in Secondary English
Reading With Purpose
Reading With Purpose
Teens Choosing to Read
Teens Choosing to Read
Black Immigrant Literacies
Black Immigrant Literacies
Writing Instruction for Success in College and in the Workplace
Writing Instruction for Success in College and in the Workplace
Core Practices for Teaching Multilingual Students
Core Practices for Teaching Multilingual Students
Words Worth Using
Words Worth Using
Bringing Sports Culture to the English Classroom
Bringing Sports Culture to the English Classroom
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