Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1108/etpc-08-2022-0099
Kelli A. Rushek, Saba Khan Vlach, Tiphany Phan
Purpose Early career teachers (ECTs) of Color are key in making change, resisting racism and pushing back against white supremacy in K-12 education, specifically in English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms. Through a narrative telling inquiry (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000) of Nora, an Asian American ELA ECT in the Midwest, and by drawing on Fisher’s (2011) Critical Integral Pedagogy of Fearlessness, this study aims to recognize the narrative power within teaching praxis as Nora stories herself toward becoming a critical pedagogue. Design/methodology/approach Using narrative inquiry methodology and methods (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000), the authors simultaneously considered the commonplace tenets of narrative inquiry – temporality, sociality and place – of the intertwined relationships of the participants and observers. The field texts included in the corpus of data include myriad tellings of Nora’s experiences in her initial years of teaching ELA. Data were analyzed in stages of parsing out narrative blocks and structures. Findings The findings indicate that Nora, as an ECT, went through recursive cycles of fear as conceptualized by Fisher (2011) – bravery, courageousness and being fear-less – of working toward radical love (Hooks, 2000) within her ELA instruction. The authors argue that Nora confronted her personal and professional fears as she strove to become a critical pedagogue in her ELA classroom. Originality/value Current scholarship portrays ECTs as lacking agency in their development and/or effectiveness in the classroom and little is said about Asian American ELA ECTs and critical instruction. The authors present Nora’s counter-narrative to make visible what is right with ELA ECTs, specifically teachers of Color, as they transform their fear into courage to fight for educational equity.
在K-12教育中，特别是在英语语言艺术(ELA)课堂上，有色人种的早期职业教师(ECTs)是做出改变、抵制种族主义和反对白人至上主义的关键。通过对中西部美籍亚裔ELA ECT诺拉(Clandinin and Connelly, 2000)的叙事探究(Clandinin and Connelly, 2000)，并借鉴Fisher(2011)的《无畏的批判整合教学法》(Critical Integral Pedagogy of fearless)，本研究旨在认识到诺拉讲述自己成为一名批判性教育者的过程中，教学实践中的叙事力量。使用叙事探究的方法论和方法(Clandinin and Connelly, 2000)，作者同时考虑了叙事探究的常见原则——参与者和观察者之间相互交织的关系——时间性、社会性和地点性。数据语料库中包含的现场文本包括诺拉在她最初几年教授ELA的经历的无数讲述。数据分析分叙事块和叙事结构的解析阶段进行。研究结果表明，作为一名电痉挛治疗者，诺拉在ELA指导下经历了Fisher(2011)所定义的恐惧递归循环——勇敢、勇敢和无所畏惧——朝着激进的爱努力(Hooks, 2000)。作者认为，诺拉面对她的个人和职业的恐惧，因为她努力成为一个关键的教师在她的ELA课堂。原创性/价值目前的学术研究将ECTs描述为在课堂发展和/或有效性方面缺乏能动性，很少提及亚裔美国人的ELA ECTs和批判性教学。作者通过诺拉的反叙事，让人们看到ELA ECTs，特别是有色人种教师的正确之处，他们将恐惧转化为为教育公平而战的勇气。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1108/etpc-05-2022-0074
Karen Spector, Elizabeth Anne Murray
Purpose Preservice English teachers are expected to use literary theories and criticism to read and respond to literary texts. Over the past century, two of the most common approaches to literary encounters in secondary schools have been New Criticism – particularly the practice of close reading – and Rosenblatt's transactional theory, both of which have been expanded through critical theorizing along the way. Elucidated by data produced in iterative experiments with Frost's “The Road Not Taken,” the authors reconceptualize the reader, the text, and close reading through the critical posthuman theory of reading with love as a generative way of thinking outside of the habitual practices of European humanisms. Design/methodology/approach In “thinking with” (Jackson and Mazzei, 2023) desiring-machines, affect, Man and critical posthuman theory, this post qualitative inquiry maps how the “The Road Not Taken” worked when students plugged into it iteratively in processes of reading with love, an affirmative and creative series of experiments with literature. Findings This study mapped how respect for authority, the battle of good v evil, individualism and meritocracy operated as desiring-machines that channeled most participants’ initial readings of “The Road Not Taken.” In subsequent experiments with the poem, the authors demonstrate that reading with love as a critical posthuman process of reading invites participants to exceed the logics of recognition and representation, add or invent additional ways of being and relating to the world and thereby produce the possibility to transform a world toward greater inclusivity and equity. Originality/value The authors reconceptualize the categories of “the reader” and “the text” from Rosenblatt’s transactional theory within practices of reading with love, which they situate within a critical posthuman theory. They eschew separating efferent and aesthetic reading stances while also recuperating practices of “close reading,” historically associated with the New Critics, by demonstrating the generativity of critically valenced “close reading” within a Deleuzian process of reading with love.
职前英语教师应该运用文学理论和批评来阅读和回应文学文本。在过去的一个世纪里，中学文学接触的两种最常见的方法是新批评主义——尤其是细读的实践——和罗森布拉特的交易理论，这两种方法都在批评性理论化的过程中得到了扩展。通过弗罗斯特的《未选之路》的反复实验得出的数据，作者通过批判性的后人类“带着爱阅读”理论，将读者、文本和细读重新概念化，作为一种超越欧洲人文主义习惯实践的生成思维方式。在“思考”(Jackson and Mazzei, 2023)欲望机器、情感、人与批判性后人类理论中，这篇定性研究描绘了当学生在“带着爱阅读”的过程中反复插入“未走的路”时，“未走的路”是如何起作用的，这是一系列积极和创造性的文学实验。这项研究描绘了对权威的尊重、善恶之争、个人主义和精英主义是如何作为欲望机器运作的，这些欲望机器引导了大多数参与者对《未选择的路》的最初阅读。在对这首诗的后续实验中，作者证明，带着爱阅读作为一种批判性的后人类阅读过程，邀请参与者超越认知和表征的逻辑，增加或发明更多的存在方式和与世界相关的方式，从而产生将世界转变为更包容和更公平的可能性。作者将罗森布拉特的交易理论中的“读者”和“文本”的范畴重新概念化，并将其置于一种批判的后人类理论中。他们避免分离输出和审美的阅读立场，同时也恢复了“细读”的实践，历史上与新批评有关，通过在德勒兹的爱的阅读过程中展示批判性价值的“细读”的生成。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1108/etpc-04-2023-0032
Christy Goldsmith
Purpose By engaging levels of W/writerliness , this paper aims to identify how English Language Arts teachers’ personal and professional W/writerly identities impact their performance of pedagogical agency. Design/methodology/approach In this narrative inquiry, the author draws on theories of writing identity and agency to analyze how four mid-career English teachers’ personal beliefs around writing intersect with their professional practice. Data sources include interviews, journal entries and classroom observations. Findings Nuanced differences in teachers’ W/writerly identities produce more substantial differences in their pedagogy, especially impacting their performance of agency to (re)define successful writing outcomes and to balance process and product in their writing instruction. Practical implications This paper presents one method to expand preservice and in-service English Language Arts (ELA) practitioners’ approaches to teaching writing even alongside limitations of their teaching context by (1) emphasizing their ownership over their own writing in university methods courses; (2) leading teachers on an exploration of W/writerly identities; and (3) investigating ways teachers can transfer their personal and professional learning to students via their own pedagogical agency. Originality/value The study extends the work of scholars in the National Writing Project, suggesting that nuanced exploration of ELA teachers’ W/writerly identities in preservice and in-service settings could increase their sense of agency to work against and within cultures of standardization.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1108/etpc-05-2022-0067
Shimikqua Elece Ellis, Christian Z. Goering
Purpose This study aims to explore the perceived barriers that a secondary English teacher faced when attempting to discuss racial injustice through young adult literature in Mississippi. Design/methodology/approach The authors rely on Critical Whiteness Studies and qualitative methods to explore the following research question: What are the barriers that a White ELA teacher perceives when teaching about racial injustice through The Hate U Give ? Findings The authors found that there were several perceived barriers to discussing modern racial injustice in the Mississippi ELA classroom. The participating teacher indicated the following barriers: a lack of racial literacy, fears of discomfort and an urge to avoid politics. Originality/value Much has been written about the urgent need for antiracist teaching practices in secondary English classes. This article explores the barriers a white ELA teacher perceived when attempting to discuss modern racial injustice through literature instruction in a white context of the “four pandemics” (Ladson-Billings, 2021).
本研究旨在探讨一位中学英语教师在密西西比州试图通过青少年文学讨论种族不公正时所面临的感知障碍。设计/方法/方法作者依靠批判性白人研究和定性方法来探索以下研究问题:白人ELA教师在通过The Hate U Give教授种族不公正时感受到的障碍是什么?作者发现，在密西西比的ELA课堂上讨论现代种族不公正存在几个明显的障碍。参与的老师指出了以下障碍:缺乏种族知识，害怕不适和急于避免政治。关于在中学英语课堂上进行反种族主义教学实践的迫切需要，已经写了很多文章。本文探讨了白人ELA教师在试图通过“四大流行病”的白人背景下的文学教学来讨论现代种族不公正时所感受到的障碍(Ladson-Billings, 2021)。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.1108/etpc-01-2023-0002
Alexander Bacalja, Brady L. Nash
Purpose This paper aims to explore the characteristics of playful literacies in case study research examining digital games in secondary English classrooms. It analyzes how educators use play as a resource for meaning-making and the impacts of play on student learning. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a keyword search in relevant academic databases to identify articles within specified search parameters. This was followed by bibliographic branching to identify additional articles. Following the identification of 30 articles, two rounds of open coding were used to identify themes for analysis. Findings The literature revealed five types of playful pedagogical practices: single-player gameplay, turn-taking gameplay, multiplayer play, play-as-design and little or no gameplay. Discussion of these findings suggests that classroom play was a highly social activity across case studies. Furthermore, boundaries between types of play and their contributions to learning were blurred and often disrupted normative approaches to curriculum and teaching. Originality/value Given the novelty of replacing traditional texts with digital games in English classrooms, this study represents an important moment to pause and review the literature to date on a particular, understudied aspect of digital games in English curricula: their playfulness. This is especially important given the innovative ways in which digital play can shift thinking about meaning-making and narrative, two historically dominant concerns within the discipline of English.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-14DOI: 10.1108/etpc-06-2021-0069
Melina Lesus, Andrea Vaughan
Purpose This study aims to explore how youth poets wrote in a community of practice and how their out-of-school poetry writing contributed toward developing disciplinary literacy. Design/methodology/approach In this qualitative case study, the authors studied youth’s writing by drafting narrative field notes, collecting student writing and process drawings and interviewing participants. Findings The authors found that the poets in this study maintained ownership of their writing and engaged in writing processes in ways that reflected Behizadeh’s (2019) conception of authenticity as writing that connects both to students’ experiences, and to the purposes and audiences of their writing context. Practical implications This out-of-school context provides implications for how English Language Arts teachers can rethink what disciplinary literacy looks like in classroom writing instruction. Originality/value By maintaining ownership of their writing, the youth agentively positioned themselves not only as students accumulating disciplinary knowledge but also as participants in a community of practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1108/etpc-06-2021-0062
Chandra Alston, Sarah Byrne Bausell
Purpose This study aims to understand the supports and challenges to using disciplinary and antiracism lenses when teaching with informational texts in middle grades English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyzes teacher talk in four virtual sessions with four middle grades ELA teachers in one school district. Teachers had recently completed a voluntary, school-based antiracism professional development. Researchers used thematic analysis of session transcripts and semi-structured interviews. Findings Teachers’ informational text use was nested in and directed by curriculum and contexts that limited disciplinary and antiracist teaching. The context and texts constrained instruction to basic reading skills. Equity was conceptualized as supporting students’ persistence. Discussions of race were avoided. Research limitations/implications This study has implications for ELA teacher preparation, and district and state resources to support merging disciplinarity and antiracism in informational text instruction in ELA. The study is limited by the small sample from one district and access to only teacher self-reports. Originality/value Secondary ELA disciplinary literacy has privileged literature, yet there is an increase of informational text use in middle grades ELA. Teachers need support teaching informational texts through disciplinary and antiracism lenses.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1108/etpc-06-2021-0075
D. Reynolds
Purpose Researchers and teachers have noted the power of students reading text sets or multiple texts on the same topic, and numerous articles have been published with examples of and frameworks for text set construction. This study aims to traces the theoretical assumptions of these frameworks and explores their distinct implications and tensions for understanding disciplinary literacy in English language arts (ELA). Design/methodology/approach The author draws on three frameworks, using a focal article for each: cognitive (Lupo et al., 2018), critical (Lechtenberg, 2018) and disciplinary (Levine et al., 2018), and connect those articles to other research studies in that tradition. Separately, the author describes each of the three text set frameworks’ design principles. Then, across frameworks, the author analyze the disciplinary assumptions around each framework’s centering texts, epistemological goals and trajectories. Findings The centering text, goals and trajectories of each framework reflect its underlying epistemological lens. All frameworks include a text that serves as its epistemological center and the cognitive and disciplinary frameworks, both rely on progressions of complexity (knowledge/linguistic and literary, respectively). The author traces additional alignments and tensions between the frameworks and offer suggestions for possible hybridities in reading modality and reading volume. Originality/value Many articles have been written about models of text set construction, but few have compared the assumptions behind those models. Examining these assumptions may help English teachers and curriculum designers select texts and build curriculum that leverages the strengths of each model and informs researchers’ understanding of disciplinary literacy in ELA.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1108/etpc-06-2021-0059
Michelle Kwok
Purpose Although English Language Arts (ELA) teachers have historically been expected to take the lead in literacy training, the domain of ELA has yet come to terms with what holds it together as a discipline. Within this conundrum, the author studied one group of ELA teacher leaders who led a professional development (PD) aimed at training teachers in disciplinary writing instruction. This study aims to explore the differences in perspectives between what constitutes disciplinarity for ELA teachers and teachers in other content areas. Design/methodology/approach Over the course of two years, the author observed the PD, taking extensive field notes, collecting artifacts and conducting interviews. The author engaged in constant comparative analysis of the data throughout this time, open coding within each data source and then triangulating the data to support the author’s finding. Findings Whereas the ELA teacher leaders seemed to focus on general aspects of writing, teachers from the other content areas shared discipline-specific understandings about writing. The teachers and teacher leaders, however, did not explicitly discuss these differences in how they conceptualized writing instruction; rather, this tension was revealed through the author’s analysis of the data. Originality/value The findings of this study illustrate how a vague definition of writing in English and of disciplinary literacy has come to bear on one PD of writing. This study recommends future research to continue to develop clear epistemologies, purposes and literate practices of the disciplines related to ELA.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-18DOI: 10.1108/etpc-06-2021-0073
Scott Storm, Karis Jones, Sarah W. Beck
Purpose This study aims to investigate how, through text-based classroom talk, youth collaboratively draw on and remix discourses and practices from multiple socially indexed traditions. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on data from a year-long social design experiment, this study uses qualitative coding and traces discoursal markers of indexicality. Findings The youth sustained, remixed and evaluated interpretive communities in their navigation across disciplinary and fandom discourses to construct a hybrid classroom interpretive community. Originality/value This research contributes to scholarship that supports using popular texts in classrooms as the focus of a scholarly inquiry by demonstrating how youth in one high school English classroom discursively index interpretive communities aligned with popular fandoms and literary scholarship. This study adds to understandings about the social nature of literary reading, interpretive whole-class text-based talk and literary literacies with multimodal texts in diverse, high school classrooms.
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