Janet Alsup: 2 books
Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses
Balancing Self and Other
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Over ten years after the original edition of Teacher Identity Discourses, Janet Alsup revisits her work with a new research study examining the characteristics of the millennial teachers now beginning to populate K-12 classrooms. Building off the first edition, this text is based on a qualitative,...
A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools—at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected—this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach...