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A widespread instructional practice in the teaching of argumentative writing is the use of writing samples or models during instructional conversations about what counts as “good argumentative writing.” In this article, we focus on a set of lessons in a high school English language arts classroom in order to gain insight into how a teacher’s use of writing samples contributed not only to what counts...
The argument here is that learning to read for young people in school is not a monolithic process but, rather, consists of multiple and differentiated pathways involving the acquisition of diverse reading practices and cultural ideologies embedded in a broad range of social and cultural contexts. Such a view of learning to read entails reconceptualizing reading and literacy, what it means to be a...
Building on the scholarship of Barnes and Todd (1977), research on language and learning in small groups in classrooms has been characterized by a linguistic turn in educational studies, a defenestration of theoretical dichotomies between the cognitive and the social, and an interpretive turn in research methodologies. Given the goal of fostering deep thinking, understanding, and creativity, the extant...
This bibliography contains 103 references to scholarship on Africanized English and related educational scholarship published since 1985. The bibliography emphasizes scholarship concerned with North American settings. Included are articles published in scholarly journals, books, and chapters from edited volumes. Not included are dissertations, papers presented at conferences or published in microfiche...
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