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Book Reviews February 18, 2020

Classroom Talk for Social Change:  Critical Conversations in English Language Arts

Rachel Moquin, Union University

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Author
Schieble, Melissa; Vetter, Amy; Monét Martin, Kahdeidra
Date Reviewed
June 17, 2021
Reviewer
Rachel Moquin
Learn how to foster critical conversations in English language arts classrooms. This guide encourages teachers to engage students in noticing and discussing harmful discourses about race, gender, and other identities. The authors take readers through a framework that includes knowledge about power, a critical learner stance, critical pedagogies, critical talk moves, and vulnerability. The text features in-depth classroom examples from six secondary English language arts classrooms. Each chapter offers specific ways in which teachers can begin and sustain critical conversations with their students, including the creation of teacher inquiry groups that use transcript analysis as a learning tool. (From the Publisher)