This valuable resource offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary school English instruction. The authors provide concrete strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media—their peer, school, family, romance, community, workplace, and virtual worlds. You will find numerous examples of middle and high school students using various literacy tools (language, genres, narratives, signs, multimedia, and drama) to study, represent, critique, and transform these worlds. Rather than simply studying about literacy practices, this new framework shows how students learn best through active participation driven by a need to critically examine and promote changes in their social worlds.
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Richard Beach is Professor of English Education at the University of Minnesota. He conducts research on response to literature/media and is a former President of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy. He is the co-author of Inquiry-Based English Instruction: Engaging Students in Life and Literature.
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