Book Description

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Artist's Statement about the Cover -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Arthur N. Applebee: A Scholar's Life in Retrospect -- Section 1 Considering Curriculum as Conversation -- 2 Discussion, Conversation, and Dialogue: Applebee, Bakhtin, and Speech in School -- 3 Entering the Conversation: Creating a Pathway to Academic Literacy -- 4 A Curricular Conversation in Teacher Education: In the Domain of Dialogic Teaching -- 5 Bringing Queer Students and LGBT-Inclusive Literature into the Conversation: Lessons We've Learned from the Work of Arthur Applebee -- Section 2 Writing as a Tool for Learning -- 6 Writing the World to Build the World, Iteratively: Inscribing Data and Projecting New Materialities in an Engineering Design Project -- 7 Nurturing Discursive Strengths: Efforts to Improve the Teaching of Reading and Writing in a Latino Charter School -- 8 Reading the World as Text: Black Adolescents and Out-of-School Literacies -- 9 The Internet's Concept of Story -- Section 3 Talking it Out: Class Discussion and Literary Understanding -- 10 Adaptive Expertise in the Teaching and Learning of Literary Argumentation in High School English Language Arts Classrooms -- 11 Literary Theory in the Secondary School -- 12 Dialogic Eventful Teaching through Dialogic Conversation and Dramatic Inquiry -- 13 Curricular Conversations, Reading the World, Intertextuality, and Doing School in a Tenth Grade English Language Arts Classroom Conversation -- Section 4 Conclusion -- 14 Practical Progressivism: W. Wilbur Hatfield, Deweyan Pedagogy, and the Future of English Teaching -- List of Contributors -- Index