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Queering Critical Literacy and Numeracy for Social Justice

Navigating the Course
Queer Studies and Education

von: Summer Melody Pennell
CHF 59.00
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	08.02.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9783030115845
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

<div><div><div><div><div>This volume explores the value of using queer pedagogy in an interdisciplinary middle school classroom to promote a better understanding of social justice and the social construction of knowledge among students. In the course of the study, which combined student-centered literacy and mathematical inquiries through a social justice lens, students used critical literacy skills to research social justice topics, learned to read numerical data like traditional print text, and created and solved their own math problems. In bringing together critical mathematics and critical literacy through a queer lens, the author offers new ways of thinking that challenges norms and helps students embrace new concepts of learning for the modern era.<br></div></div></div></div></div>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Learning in Motion: Kayaking Lessons.- 2. School, Community, and Students: The River.- 3. Math for a Cause: Preparation for the Journey.- 4. Students Moving Out of their Comfort Zones: Primary and Secondary Stability.- 5. Moments of Active Reflection: Eddies.- 6. Going Around Learning Obstacles: Portages.- 7. Moving Forward When Faced with Learning Difficulties: Rolling a Kayak.- 8. Conclusions and Implications: The Take Out.-

Autorenportrait

<b>Summer Melody Pennell </b>is Assistant Professor of English Education at Truman State University, USA. Her research interests include teacher education, critical literacy, new literacies, queer theory and pedagogy, and young adult literature. 

Back cover copy

<p>“Educators have been looking for ways to move beyond critique but it has turned out to be easier to say what is wrong and what needs done than to actually do it. Through this book, Pennell has broken this logjam. She has taken critical pedagogy, critical literacy, and critical math and put them into practice—with dramatically positive results. Queer pedagogy enabled unlocking all these other approaches and allowed students to make math speak for social justice—a miraculous accomplishment!”<br><b>—George W. Noblit</b>, Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA</p>

<p>“Pennell extends a powerful metaphor in which kayaking represents nuanced social justice work among mostly white and gay-friendly middle schoolers in a literacy and math elective course. In doing so, she challenges teachers and students to draw on their identities as allies, with respect to sexual diversity, in order to develop their identities as allies with respect to racial diversity. In this way, Pennell guides readers to queer curriculum for social justice.”<br><b>—Mollie V. Blackburn</b>, Professor of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University, USA</p>

<p>This volume explores the value of using queer pedagogy in an interdisciplinary middle school classroom to promote a better understanding of social justice and the social construction of knowledge among students. In the course of the study, which combined student-centered literacy and mathematical inquiries through a social justice lens, students used critical literacy skills to research social justice topics, learned to read numerical data like traditional print text, and created and solved their own math problems. In bringing together critical mathematics and critical literacy through a queer lens, the author offers new ways of thinking that challenges norms and helps students embrace new concepts of learning for the modern era. </p>

Sonderbeitrag

Features new research into the implications of critical literacy on middle school students Situates queer pedagogy within a broad theoretical and interdisciplinary lens Disseminates findings for ELA and math teachers, as well as for teaching across the curriculum Includes recommendations for education researchers using queer pedagogy and social justice frameworks

Unpublished endorsement

<i>Queering Critical Literacy and Numeracy for Social Justice</i> offers a unique contribution to the fields of social justice education, teacher education, interdisciplinary teaching, ethnographic educational research, and queer pedagogy. Drawing on queer pedagogy’s practice of questioning norms and binaries, Dr. Pennell engages her students in critical reading strategies relevant to media and information literacy while highlighting the dangers of relying on or believing in singular answers. Conceptualizing mathematics as processes that are open to interpretation rather than as a field of discrete problems and solutions, Pennell fosters critical thinking in her students and readers. In this thought-provoking book Dr. Pennell weaves kayaking as a metaphor for learning throughout her analysis as well as her reflectionson her own teaching and research. (Susan Woolley, Associate Professor of Educational Studies and LGBTQ Studies, Colgate University, USA)