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Enriching Literacy Teaching and Learning Through Critical Inquiry Pedagogy

Jennifer Aaron, Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Michelle Commeyras, Sharon Dowling Cox, Bren Daniell, Ellen Elrick, Bob Fecho, Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, Elizabeth Hogan, Andrea Pintaone-Hernandez, Kathy Roulston, Amanda Siegel, and Hope Vaughn

Foster a classroom community where teachers and students make their own meanings of the world and consider their relation to larger social, political, cultural, and historical issues. You’ll find a rich range of perspectives in these stories of K–12 teachers and university educators who participated in a three-year study to explore issues of critical inquiry. This text will show you

The power of research partnerships

A framework for teachers and teacher educators that provides ongoing, mutual professional support

The complexities, challenges, and possibilities of critical inquiry classrooms

Classrooms where teachers and students transact with community, responsibility, and risk in productive ways

© 2006 | 192 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-583-4 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-583-2

Also of interest:

Getting Beyond “I Like the Book”

And also from Michelle Commeyras:

Teachers as Readers