Inquiry-based English instruction
Subtitle: engaging students in life and literature
By: Richard Beach & Jamie Myers ; foreword by Jerome C. Harste
Contributors: Myers, Jamie
Series: Language and literacy series; Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780585440231
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Language arts (Secondary); Language experience approach in education; Interdisciplinary approach in education; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; General
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing social worlds: an introduction; title: A practice-oriented curriculum for inquiry into social worlds; title: A social worlds unit in ninth-grade English; title: Inquiry strategies: immersing; identifying concerns, issues, and dilemmas; and contextualizing; title: Critiquing and transforming social worlds; title: Tools for representing social worlds; title: Peer worlds; title: School and sports worlds; title: Family and romance worlds; title: Community and workplace worlds; title: Virtual worlds.