Inviting students to design spaces for themselves and their communities with YA literature -- Steps for enacting communities of practice in the classroom -- Rattling the cage of existing and/or more rigid courses -- More hands in stand-alone YAL courses -- Leading literate lives together.
Summary:
"Explores how high school ELA teachers, using communities of practice as a guiding framework, can work with students to build a community that defines their purposes together, harnessing the potential of YA literature and critical freedom to co-develop YA electives and lead literate lives together as a community of practice that is engaged with their local and global communities"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Principles in practice : Children's and YA literature strand
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