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Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education demonstrates how critical approaches to language and dialects are an essential part of social justice work in literacy education.

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Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education demonstrates how critical approaches to language and dialects are an essential part of social justice work in literacy education. The text details the largest and most comprehensive study ever conducted on teachers´ language beliefs and learning about dialects, power, and identity. It describes the experiences of over 300 pre- and in-service teachers from across the United States who participated in a course on how to enact Critical Language Pedagogy in their English classrooms.

Through detailed analyses and descriptions, the authors demonstrate how the course changed teachers´ beliefs about language, literacy, and their students. The book also presents information about the effectiveness of the mini-course, variations in the responses of teachers from different regions of the United States, and the varying language beliefs of teachers of color and White teachers. The authors present the entire mini-course so that readers can incorporate it into their own classes, making the book practical as well as informative for teachers, teacher educators, and educational researchers.

Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education provides a much-needed theoretical explanation of Critical Language Pedagogy and, just as importantly, a detailed description of teacher learning and a Critical Language Pedagogy curriculum that readers can use in K-12, college, and teacher education classrooms.

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List of Tables - Foreword: Moving beyond Uncritical, Conformist, and Assimilationist Models of Language Pedagogy - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Critical Language Pedagogy Curriculum - Study Design - Teachers´ Learning about Dialects, Instruction, Power, and Privilege - Racial and Regional Differences in How Preservice Teachers Respond to Critical Language Pedagogy - Conclusions and Recommendations - Index.

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"The Critical Language Pedagogy curriculum is timely and necessary for college and middle- to high-school curricula. The authors do a magnificent job of creating a curriculum that teachers are hungry for and students need. When I attend conferences with practitioners, they often buy the message but want to know how to implement it. This book does that and more. Readers should walk away determining when to implement the Critical Language Pedagogy curriculum in their teaching. I know I will." - Sonja L. Lanehart, Professor and Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and the Humanities, University of Texas at San Antonio, and Author of Sista, Speak!: Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy

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