Teaching Toward Freedom

Supporting Voices and Silence in the English Classroom
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-57207-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Teacher Education

Teaching Toward Freedom: Supporting Voices and Silence in the English Classroom promotes teaching and learning that celebrate diversity and community through the systematic integration of traditionally "non-academic" voices and mindfulness-based, contemplative practices. By examining current scholarship and discussing novels and memoirs whose power is tied to freedom of expression, this book argues that teachers should allow students to use and explore the various rhetorical registers that they bring to the classroom. Through an innovative combination of narrative, argument, and literary analysis, the book skillfully connects conversations about linguistic diversity and contemplative approaches in order to foster a compassionate space for learning in the college-level English classroom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeLuca, Geraldine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Courage Teachers

Part I.

- Entering the University

- Teaching Writing

- Vernacular Voices and the Preservation of the Spirit

- Three African American Scholars and Two African American Stories Told in the Vernacular

Part II.

- Double Messages: The Complications of Academic Discourse, Imitation and Plagiarism

Part III

- Embracing the Contemplative Life in the Classroom, I

- Embracing the Contemplative Life, II

- Danger Time and Deep Ecology

Appendix: Guided Meditations

Über Autor(innen)

Geraldine DeLuca is Professor Emerita of English at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.