On Literacy and Its Teaching: Issues in English Education (SUNY series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice)

This book recognizes and embraces the complexities of modern English teaching. It presents English teachers and teacher educators with a critical view of current professional issues and concerns in the belief that these groups need, and want, to participate in curricular and professional reform movements that affect them and their students. The book examines such issues as the interconnectedness of the study of language, literature, and composition; curricular problems in language instruction in teacher education; the relationship between our traditional notions of literature study and our emerging view of literacy in the contemporary information age; and the ways in which current theory and research can be translated into innovative designs for the teaching of written composition. On Literacy and Its Teaching is a powerful response to the current challenge for innovation and change in English teacher education. With its broad scope, it provides a balanced overview and timely analysis of the field of English Education. Content Knowledge Versus Process Knowledge : A False Dichotomy / Gail E. Hawisher -- Report From The Eastern Shore : The English Coalition Conference / Charles B. Harris -- Secondary School English Teachers : Past, Present, Future / R. Baird Shuman -- To Think About What I Think : Inquiry And Involvement / Connie Swartz Zitlow -- The National Writing Project : Staff Development In The Teaching Of Composition / Mary Louise Gomez -- Testing Teachers : Current Issues And Their Implications For Evaluating English Teachers / Maia Pank Mertz -- Literature And Literacy / Robert E. Probst -- Exploring The Relationships Between Writing And Literary Understanding : A Language And Learning Perspective / George E. Newell -- Literature As Writing : Integrating Literature And Writing Instruction Through Manuscript Studies / Ron Fortune -- On Teaching Writing As A Verb Rather Than As A Noun : Research On Writing For High School English Teachers / Martin Nystrand -- The Place Of Classical Rhetoric In The Contemporary Writing Classroom / Sheryl L. Finkle And Edward P.j. Corbett -- Rhetorical Theory And The Teaching Of Writing / Andrea A. Lunsford And Cheryl Glenn -- English Teachers And The Humanization Of Computers : Networking Communities Of Readers And Writers / Cynthia L. Selfe -- Watching Our Grammar : The English Language For English Teachers / Dennis Baron -- The English Teacher And The Non-english Speaking Student : Facing The Multicultural/multilingual Challenge / Anna O. Soter. Edited By Gail E. Hawisher & Anna O. Soter. Includes Bibliographical References. This book recognizes and embraces the complexities of modern English teaching. It presents English teachers and teacher educators with a critical view of current professional issues and concerns in the belief that these groups need, and want, to participate in curricular and professional reform movements that affect them and their students.The book examines such issues as the interconnectedness of the study of language, literature, and composition; curricular problems in language instruction in teacher education; the relationship between our traditional notions of literature study and our emerging view of literacy in the contemporary information age; and the ways in which current theory and research can be translated into innovative designs for the teaching of written composition.On Literacy and Its Teaching is a powerful response to the current challenge for innovation and change in English teacher education. With its broad scope, it provides a balanced overview and timely analysis of the field of English Education.Gail E. Hawisher is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Purdue University. Anna O. Soter is Assistant Professor in English Education at The Ohio State University.