A Road Less Traveled: Critical Literacy and Language Learning in the Classroom, 1964–1996 takes us through what Robert W. Blake calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts classroom from its linguistic and literature foundations, to emphases on close reading techniques and structures to composing and responding to literature. A Road Less Traveled heads bumpily into the path of learning how to work with "non-native speakers" and other "basic" students toward a (re)-burst of a renewed interest in poetry and drama, reader response, a process approach to writing, and the diverse student, showing through the often winding and blurry road along the journey of our literacy travels over 30 years, that what we understood best about reading and writing has stood the test of time.
| ISBN: | 9781433132636 |
| Publication date: | 15th March 2018 |
| Author: | Brett Elizabeth Blake, Robert W Blake |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 306 pages |
| Series: | Counterpoints |
| Genres: |
Teaching of a specific subject Educational: Mathematics and numeracy Computer science Educational administration and organization Educational strategies and policy Educational: Arts, general Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general Language teaching theory and methods Educational administration and organization Educational strategies and policy |