Title: Sites of possibility : critical dialogue across educational settings /
Authors: Jennings, Louise B.
Publisher: Hampton Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Critical pedagogy.; Critical discourse analysis; Literacy Social aspects Research.
Abstract: This book examines how people engage in critical literacy through their talk and interactions. This book is organized around critical dialogue - dialogue that involves identifying and interrogating the often invisible inequitable structures and policies that shape our lives and taking action toward new, more equitable possibilities.
Contents: "They say we're the land of tolerance" : using critical dialogue to interrogate issues of immigration in a middle-level classroom / Jennifer L. Wilson -- Addressing oppressive discourses and images of youth : sites of possibility / Louis B. Jennings, DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, Sheri C. Hardee -- Critical narrative analysis of classroom discourse : culture circles as a framework for empowerment and social action / Mariana Souto-Manning -- The discursive production of homelessness : teachers' discursive constructions, deconstructions, and reconstructions / Tasha Tropp Laman, Mitzi Lewison -- "This culture stuff -- oh!" : Children's literature, critical literacy, and discourse models / Pamela C. Jewett -- Research as social action : constructing critical dialogue as a complex social and educational phenomenon / Audra Skukauskaite, Judith L. Green -- The challenge of dialogue in teacher education / JoBeth Allen -- Dimensions of discourse and identity / Betsy Rymes -- Critical dialogue across educational contexts / Pamela C. Jewett ... [et al.].