Encouraging Agitation: Teaching Teacher Candidates To Confront Words That Wound

James Gee (1986) suggested that [English] language arts teachers play a crucial gatekeeping role in our society and could either see themselves as keepers of the museum of language or guides into the complexities of language learning. In particular, he noted that those teachers who failed to view th...

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Published in:Teacher education quarterly (Claremont, Calif.) Calif.), 2010-01, Vol.37 (1), p.53-72
Main Author: Staples, Jeanine M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Critical Theory
Education
Educational Environment
English Teachers
Ethnolinguistics
Gender Bias
Homosexuality
Ideology
Language
Language Arts
Language Usage
Learning
Linguistics
Literacy
Literacy Education
Methods
Political candidates
Popular Culture
Practice
Preservice Teacher Education
Preservice Teachers
Professional development
Racial Bias
Racism
Secondary School Teachers
Self concept
Sexism
Social Action
Social Attitudes
Social Justice
Society
Sociolinguistics
Stereotypes
Student teacher relationship
Student teachers
Students
Study and teaching
Teacher Attitudes
Teacher centers
Teacher Characteristics
Teacher education
Teacher Education Curriculum
Teacher Educators
Teacher Role
Teacher Student Relationship
Teachers
Teaching Methods
Training
United States
Violence
Whites
Words
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Summary:James Gee (1986) suggested that [English] language arts teachers play a crucial gatekeeping role in our society and could either see themselves as keepers of the museum of language or guides into the complexities of language learning. In particular, he noted that those teachers who failed to view the political nature of their practices opened themselves to being pawns at the hands of those who both saw and exercised their political views of the classroom. Many teachers who take inquiry stances on their practice embrace the concept of classroom as a place where language, literacy, and power intersect in ways that can be enabling or stunting. Accordingly, these teachers seek to understand what it means to teach and research language and literacy in ways that call attention to these political and power issues. (Fecho & Allen, 2003, p. 234)
ISSN:0737-5328