Deranging English/education
Subtitle: teacher inquiry, literary studies, and hybrid visions of English for 21st century schools
By: John A. Staunton.
Series: Refiguring English studies
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780814110836
Subjects: English philology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Language and culture -- United States; Culture -- Study and teaching
Description: A 19th-century merman, a 17th-century poet and nun, an aspiring magician with a box cutter poised over a classic of 20th-century poetry, and a group of inquiring teachers turned classroom researchers join together with an assortment of textual and classroom artifacts to offer a vision of what “English” can be for 21st-century schools. Deranging English/Education brings these and other hybrid figures to bear on the troubling institutional and theoretical divisions between the fields of English studies and English teacher education. In a series of case studies drawn from his own experiences as a professor of English education and American literature, John Staunton shows us what can happen when we “derange” traditional perspectives on research, teaching, and the curriculum. Throughout this journey, Staunton continually invites us to see the enterprise of English/Education from the range of subject positions with stakes in the future of English. Preservice teachers, classroom teachers, teacher-researchers, and teacher educators all get a chance to speak to what it means to live and work on that border between English and Education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deranging English/Education; title: A collaboration of perfect economy: carrying teacher-research across country in Williams's The red wheelbarrow / with Gloria Reeves and Joanne Wisniewski; title: Langston Shakespeare's Harlem 41: found poetry, found pedagogy, and the transpositions of student/teacher inquiry; title: Anchoring points in the fabric(ation) of a national literature: connecting students and American literature through inquiry; title: Of blackbirds and backpacks: images and models of what counts as knowledge in English/education; title: At the thresholds of English/education.; title: Appendix:  Materials for Deranging English/Education