English & Literacy/Language Arts

The is the first text to capture innovative new literacy research methods in one volume—especially in the areas of digital technologies, gaming, and web-based research; discourse analysis; and arts-based research...

This book chronicles fifth and sixth grade writers in a poor, culturally diverse, rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spreading outward. The big ideas of officia..

This study confronts the charges made by the Religious Right (RR) in the USA, against the literature used in public schools. It presents opposing views on democracy, secular humanism, religion, the Bible and the purposes of literature, and analyzes six books vilified by the RR as "immoral"...

How do we inspire students to love reading and discovery? In Passionate Readers: The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child, classroom teacher, author, and speaker Pernille Ripp reveals the five keys to creating a passionate reading environment...

Kamishibai (paper-theater), a Japanese picture-storytelling medium, is gaining global interest as we move from a text-based culture to one that emphasizes multiple semiotic systems and performance. This is the first volume to explore the potential of kamishibai as a dynamic "new" interactive medium ..

Kamishibai (paper-theater), a Japanese picture-storytelling medium, is gaining global interest as we move from a text-based culture to one that emphasizes multiple semiotic systems and performance. This is the first volume to explore the potential of kamishibai as a dynamic "new" interactive medium ..

This book addresses the importance of developing w/in children & adolescents a critical awareness of the social, political, & economic messages emanating from the different forms of popular culture. It is written for teachers, researchers, & theorists...

This title addresses the importance of developing within children and adolescents a critical awareness of the social, political, and enonomic messages emanating from the different forms of popular culture...

This unique global perspective on multiple literacies crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies. It calls attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contex..

Covering key concepts in the field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world.  Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologie..

Covering key concepts in the field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world.  Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologie..

Through firsthand accounts of classroom practices, this book ties 130 years of progressive education to social justice work. Progressive reading education has been and remains key to these ties, commitments, challenges and constructions. Over 100 teacher stories invite readers to join the struggle t..