Teaching challenged and challenging topics in diverse and inclusive literature : addressing the taboo in the English classroom /

This groundbreaking text provides practical, contextualized methods for teaching and discussing topics that are considered "taboo" in the classroom in ways that support students' lived experiences. In times when teachers are scapegoated for adopting culturally sustaining teaching prac...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Savitz, Rachelle S. (Editor), Roberts, Leslie, (Leslie D.) (Editor), DeHart, Jason D., 1982- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2023].
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Stergios Botzakis
  • Introduction / Rachelle Savitz, Leslie Roberts, and Jason DeHart
  • Un maravilloso, dual-language read aloud : making families visible through testimony in the primary classroom / Jean Carlos Garcia Reyes, Beth Buchholz
  • What makes you unique? : valuing classroom diversity within writing instruction / Kate Bentley, Amy Broemmel, M. Chris Douglass
  • Sliding the glass door : making time and space for difficult conversations with youth through multivoiced young adult literature / Keith Newvine, Tina Middaugh, Heather Waymouth, Pamela Margolis, Sarah Fleming, Sarah Mellon
  • Exploring gender identity and equity through Lily and Dunkin / Jennifer Dail, Julie Koch, Shelbie Witte, Lauren Vandever
  • Remixing for relevance : talking gentrification in pride / Brooke Bianchi Pennington, Arianna Banack
  • Layering discourse : encouraging diverse perspectives in a high school literature class / Lauren Popov, Renee Stites Kruep
  • Curating the socially just classroom library in the middle / Kristie W. Smith, Erica Adela Warren
  • 'I don't understand, I don't speak Spanish' : exploring linguistic and cultural differences through picturebooks / Julia López-Robertson, Rocio Herron
  • Combating ableism with classroom literature / Emily Poynter, Rachelle S. Savitz
  • Engaging dynamic discussions / K.N., H.S., Amanda Carter
  • Cultivating students' civic agency through participation in a social justice-themed book club as a subversive approach to critical literacy in education / Elizabeth E. Schucker
  • Scattering stars : graphic novel book studies with middle grades students to explore refugee stories / Rebecca Harper, Alicia Stevenson
  • Afterword / Kimberly N. Parker.