Advocacy skills for teachers: "a real careful little dance" / Heather A. Linville -- Problematizing advocacy: definitions, alignments, and expansions / Jamie Harrison and Josephine Prado -- Preparing teacher advocates -- Beyond the philosophy statement: bringing advocacy center stage in TESOL teacher education / James Whiting -- Community asset inquiry: an emerging model for developing ESOL teacher advocacy and reflexivity for family and community engagement / Felice Russell and Amanda Richey -- Building advocacy capacity in a teacher training program / Jamie Harrison -- Cultivating a sense of critical consciousness in teacher candidates within a community-based adult ESL program / Sarina Chugani Molina -- Action research for advocacy in a supervised teaching seminar / Carly Huelsenbeck, Laura Baecher, and Diane Staehr Fenner -- Advocacy in action -- Exploring advocacy in an elementary ESL afterschool program in the United States: empirically, what's there? / Jackie Ridley, Nicole King, Esther Hye-Min Yoon, and Youngjoo Yi -- Language advocate alliances: families and educators united to support English -- Moving away from the margins: publication of international voices as a tool for advocacy / Kristin Roberts-Raymond, Denise Desrosiers, Andrea Paquin, and Carolyn Hutton -- Action required: the adult educator as activist / Rob Sheppard -- A framework for asset-focused advocacy in adult ESL education Deborah Kennedy -- Making the path by walking together: a collaborative approach to advocacy / Sarah Hesson and Rachel Toncelli -- Advocating with specific EL populations -- Advocating for Indigenous Hispanic EL students: promoting the Indigenismo within / Luis Javier Pent'n Herrera -- A mother's advocacy: lessons for educators of long-term EL students / Maneka Deanna Brooks -- From majority to minority: advocating for English learners from the African diaspora / Kisha C. Bryan, Ayanna Cooper, and Babatunji Ifarinu.
Summary:
"This holistic text explores the nexus of advocacy and English language teaching and learning, beginning with theoretical examinations of advocacy, covering constraints and challenges, and offering a range of practical perspectives in different contexts and populations. Appropriate for those new to the topic and to established scholars, this volume explores advocacy in practice as a form of social justice. Bringing together wide-ranging and diverse viewpoints in TESOL, this volume examines the role and of advocacy in a range of contexts, including K-12 classrooms and schools, adult and higher education settings, families and communities, and teacher education programs and professional organizations. Advocacy in English Language Teaching and Learning offers readers a deeper understanding of what advocacy is, what advocacy can be, and gives teacher candidates and educators the tools to advocate for their students, colleagues, and communities"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.