
Critical Disciplinary Literacy
An Equity-Driven and Culturally Responsive Approach to Disciplinary Learning and Teaching
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Critical Disciplinary Literacy
An Equity-Driven and Culturally Responsive Approach to Disciplinary Learning and Teaching
About this book
This accessible book introduces a new theory of critical disciplinary literacy (CDL) that merges criticality and disciplinary literacy approaches in a cohesive and inclusive framework. There are unique hurdles in integrating critical and culturally sustaining approaches to literacy into specialized content area classrooms, but this book provides clear, research-grounded strategies and methods that will appeal to teachers and help them foster equitable literacy learning opportunities for all students. Using a critical lens, chapters deconstruct and reconstruct pathways for new practices that push back on familiar, normative literacy approaches in the disciplines. Authors provide a framework for designing new approaches to disciplinary literacy both for and with students, and they present innovative and practical strategies for implementation. With real-world examples from the field, this book will be essential reading for preservice teachers and in courses on literacy and disciplinary instruction.
With vignettes and classroom examples from educators who have been enacting elements of CDL practices for years, this book will be essential reading for preservice educators in courses on both literacy and content instruction. Furthermore, current and seasoned educators and educational leaders will find this book to be an invaluable resource as they wrestle with how to teach disciplinary literacy in ways that move away from approaches that have historically marginalized many voices to approaches that include and center students' languages, histories, and cultures.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Past and Possible Future of Disciplinary Literacy
- 2 Looking Back and Looking Forward: Locating CDL Within the History of Disciplinary Literacy Work
- 3 Framing the Critical Disciplinary Literacy Model
- 4 A CDL Approach to Sociocultural Context
- 5 A CDL Approach to Participants/Students
- 6 A CDL Approach to Tasks/Purposes
- 7 A CDL Approach to Texts
- 8 Learning from Educators Enacting CDL
- 9 Learning from Leaders Supporting CDL
- 10 Getting Started, Keeping Going, and Paving the New Road
- Appendix A: Texts that Can Help with Unhiding and Identifying Habits of Mind in Various Disciplines
- Appendix B: Disciplines Outside of School—Considering Options
- Appendix C: Moving from Disciplinary Literacy to Critical Disciplinary Literacy
- Appendix D: Titles We Explored in the Building of This Framework and This Book
- Index