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Christina Berchini – English Education, 2019
This article focuses on Mr. Kurt, a white, first-year English teacher in an all-white context who has chosen to teach his students about whiteness, white supremacy, white privilege, and the many ways institutionalized racism is enacted in daily life. I center this article on classroom scenarios that highlight the challenges embedded in dealing…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, English Teachers, English Instruction, Whites
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Tamara T. Butler – English Education, 2017
In the wake of racial violence, teacher educators, literacy scholars, and classroom teachers are looking for ways to teach about in/equities and in/justice. In this article, I position #SayHerName as an entry point for educators and scholars to think about how English education and English language arts classrooms can become spaces to address…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, African American Students, African American Achievement
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Lindy L. Johnson; Nicole Sieben; Dana Buxton – English Education, 2018
In this study, we examine a multiyear professional development program designed to help English teachers incorporate "connected learning" into their classrooms. We propose a model of professional learning we term "collaborative design as mediated praxis," which refines and extends the five features of high-quality professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Workshops, High School Teachers, High School Students
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Elisabeth Johnson – English Education, 2013
Recent research and theoretical work on whiteness in teaching highlights reific, monolithic discourses that position white teachers as deficient, resistant, naive, and ignorant. I seek to complicate similar reductive portrayals through a two-year case of one high school teacher's racial identities and subjectivities in and beyond the English…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Teachers, High School Teachers, White Teachers
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Johnson, Janet D. – English Education, 2012
This critical ethnographic study explores how two teacher candidates in English education used specific and varied literacy practices to enact their social justice priorities at a troubled high school in a high-need district. Data include interviews before and after the student teaching experience; observations of teaching, blogs, journals, and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Web Sites, Ethnography
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Davila, Denise – English Education, 2011
This study investigates the outcomes of two novice preservice teachers' (PSTs') attempts at taking up the roles of critical guides (Damico & Apol, 2008) to mediate discussions about racism in response to President Barack Obama's (2008) campaign speech "A More Perfect Union." With the objective of teaching for social justice, these…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Novices, Presidents, Public Speaking