National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Featured Books at this Event

1. African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education

   A Bibliographic Resource

   By John R. Rickford, Julie Sweetland, Angela E. Rickford, Thomas Grano

   Series: NCTE-Routledge Research Series

   More than 50 years of scholarly attention to the intersection of language and education have resulted in a rich body of literature on the role of vernacular language varieties in the classroom. This field of work can be bewildering in its size and variety, drawing as it does on the diverse methods,...

   Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women and Literacy

   Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century

   Edited by Beth Daniell, Peter Mortensen

   Series: NCTE-Routledge Research Series

   Path-breaking research on women and literacy in the past decade established conventions and advanced innovative methods that push the making of knowledge into new spheres of inquiry. Taking these accomplishments as a point of departure, this volume emphasizes the diversity—of approaches and...

   Published June 21st 2007 by Routledge
3. Race, Rhetoric, and Technology

   Searching for Higher Ground

   By Adam J. Banks

   Series: NCTE-Routledge Research Series

   In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhetorical...

   Published September 25th 2005 by Routledge
4. Teacher Identity Discourses

   Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces

   By Janet Alsup

   Series: NCTE-Routledge Research Series

   In this book, Janet Alsup reports and theorizes a multi-layered study of teacher identity development. The study, which followed six pre-service English education students, was designed to investigate her hypothesis that forming (or failing to form) a professional identity is central in the process...

   Published October 17th 2005 by Routledge
5. True to the Language Game

   African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy

   By Keith Gilyard

   In True to the Language Game, Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains Gilyard’s most relevant scholarly contributions to...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge