Table of contents - Special Issue: The pre-service formation of English teachers: tensions and rewards
Guest Editors: Graham Parr, Anne Elrod Whitney
Constructing English: pre-service ELA teachers navigating an unwieldy discipline
Kati Macaluso, Cori McKenzie, Jennifer VanDerHeide, Michael MacalusoThe purpose of this paper is to describe a pedagogical innovation – a matrix construction exercise – intended to help pre-service teachers (PTs) navigate the multiple and…
Recognizing spaces of dissensus in English teacher education
Meghan E. BarnesThis study inquires into the ways that three preservice teachers enrolled in one English education program at a state namesake university in the Southeastern part of USA, oriented…
Storying the classroom: storytelling and teacher evaluation
Samuel Jaye TannerThis essay uses the author’s experience with teacher evaluation as a point of departure to consider how narrative methods might be used to complicate contemporary trends in…
I feel like a hypocrite: a beginning teacher’s disconnect between beliefs and practice
Michelle KnottsThis study aims to examine the lived experiences of a beginning teacher to understand the constraints and possibilities she faces in moving from a critically minded preservice…
From pre-service to early-career English teacher in the UK: negotiating powerful myths
Anne Marie Turvey, Jeremy LloydThe purpose of this study is to investigate contemporary pre-service English teacher education in the UK and the transition, for one individual, from pre-service into early-career…
The not-reading epidemic: reflections of a mid-service English teacher
Donna WinelandThe purpose for this paper is to encourage teachers to change the way they approach teaching literature to proficient and accelerated readers or alliterates. With class time…
Looking closer at reading comprehension: Examining the use of effective practices in a literacy clinic
Evan Ortlieb, F.D. McDowellReading comprehension levels of elementary students have not significantly improved in the twenty-first century, and, as a result, the need for systematic and intensive reading…
Grab those teachable moments! (On teacher identities and student learning)
Hristina KeranovaThis study aims to use the works of Bakhtin and theorists who further developed his ideas to show the struggle teachers go through in trying to balance different identities in the…
Discourses of “Crazy English”: reconciling the tensions between the nation-state and neoliberal agenda
M. Obaidul Hamid, Shuqin LuoWhile education policymakers in Asian polities find it difficult to resist the English language which has attained a new status in “late capitalism”, prevailing policy-level…
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ISSN:
1175-8708Online date, start – end:
2015Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Audrey Lucero
- Melissa Schieble
- Amy Vetter