Description: Writing in Education: The Art of Writing for Educators explores representations of meaning in light of teachers' and teacher candidates' responsibilities as professionals in the field of education. Practical examples of field-based work and discussions of reflective, multimodal, and cross-literate practices make this book an important and...
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Elizabeth Chase, Ed.D., is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at St. John's University. Her research explores teaching for social justice, gender and youth studies in education, and content knowledge development within teacher education.
Nancy P. Morabito, Ph.D., is Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Education at St. John's University. Her research focuses on science teaching and learning, writing in science classrooms, and pre-service teacher development.
Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Ph.D., is Professor in the School of Education at St. John's University. She researches adolescents' meaning making practices in and across digital and nondigital spaces.
Review Quotes: "A must-read for everyone interested in the teaching of writing, Chase, Morabito, and Abrams have written a text that speaks to teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. This book invites an engagement in provocative strategies and tools that help teachers think through and practice multiple forms of writing--from deep reflection to multimodal exploration, to certification-based reporting, and communicating with various stakeholders. It is a meaningful and practical guide that brings a fresh perspective to the art of and craft of teaching writing in online and in-person classrooms." - Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, author of Love from the Vortex & Other Poems, Associate Professor, English Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
"In Writing in Education: The Art of Writing for Educators, Chase, Morabito, and Abrams make the powerful--and too often neglected--argument that being a teacher requires being a writer. This book points the way for how teachers can do professional writing that benefits themselves and, more importantly, their students." - Michael W. Smith, Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University