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Title: Encouraging Agitation: Teaching Teacher Candidates to Confront Words That Wound (Essay)
Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 230 KB

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Introduction Gee's (1986) emphasis on teachers' consciousness about "the political nature of their practices" posits literacy education as a social justice project. Advocating this stance is particularly important as we work to understand and negotiate post-9/11 literacies, those socially situated and culturally informed literacy practices that acutely traverse, are responsive to, and make meaning from the politically charged popular culture narratives of our current day and age (Staples, 2008a). These literacies are entangled with constructs like race, gender, culture, language, religion, terror, and sexuality in ways that are globally unprecedented and hyper-communicated at lightning speed. Gee clarifies the importance of teachers' "inquiry stances on their practice" as primary vehicles through which we can influence the ways "language, literacy, and power intersect" to "enable or stunt" the sensitivities, inclinations, and even trajectories of our students (Fecho & Allen, 2003, p. 234). This "enable or stunt" dichotomy is often the result of teachers misunderstanding ways to support students' language learning and the barrage of linguistic violence students are exposed to and utilize on a regular basis.