Description:
The chapters in this collection explore the implementation of social justice pedagogies with preservice teachers by members of the Commission on Social Justice in Teacher Education. Ultimately, this collection seeks to discover how ideas of social justice are conceptualized and understood by English Educators and K-12 teachers.
Review Quotes: "For any English Education programs undergoing accreditation or program revision, this book traces the significant history of the field's social justice standard, offering a range of examples of how its implementation could look. Effecting social justice through English teaching might involve: nationwide dialogue around shared provocative texts, addressing the climate emergency, truly teaching to multilingual students, naming and responding to race and racism, or ensuring that we devote attention to class differences. Rather than pick and choose one way to meet the standard, programs could incorporate a panoply of these approaches so that English classrooms cannot help but become the central site for social change."--Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides, author (with Carlin Borsheim-Black) of Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students