Wish+List

Just to get us started, I'll put up a few -- feel free to add, because this just begins to scratch the surface. SC


 * On English as a discipline:**

Arthur Applebee (1996). //Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning//. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Robert Yagelski Scott A. Leonard. (2002). //The Relevance of English: Teaching that Matters in Students' Lives//. NCTE

Miles Myers (1996) //Changing Our Minds: Negotiating English and Literacy//. NCTE


 * Related areas: Social theory, critical theory, literacy studies:**

James Collins and Richard K. Blot (2003). //Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power and Identity//. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

M. M. Bakhtin (1934/1981). Discourse in the Novel. In Holquist (Ed.) //The Dialogic Imagination//, Emerson & Holquist, trans. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 259-422.

M. M. Bakhtin (1952/1986). The problem of speech genres. In Emerson & Holquist (Eds.) //Speech Genres and Other Late Essays//. McGee, trans. Austin: Uinversity of Texas Press, pp. 60-102.

Cynthia Lewis, Patricia Enciso, and Elizabeth Moje. (2007).  __[|Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Powe]r__ Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Elizabeth Ellsworth (1999). Why Doesn't this Feel Empowering? Working through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy, in C.Luke & J. Gore (Eds.) //Feminisms and critical pedagogy//. New York: Routledge.

Deborah Brandt & Katie Clinton (2002). Limits of the local: Expanding perspectives on literacy as a social practice. //Journal of Literacy Research 34:// 337-356.


 * On teaching literature:**

Carol D. Lee (2007). //Culture, Literacy and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind//. NY: Teachers College Press.

Dennis Sumara (2002). //Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight//. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Peter Rabinowitz & Michael Smith (1998). //Authorizing Readers: Resistance and Respect in the Teaching of Literature.// New York: Teachers College Press.


 * On Writing:**

Peter Smagorinsky (Ed.) (2006). //Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Change.// NY: Teachers College Press.

Charles Bazerman & Paul Prior (Eds). (2004). //What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices//. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.


 * On multimodal literacies, technology integration, and New Literacy Studies:**

New London Group (1996) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies. //Harvard Ed Review.//

Gunther Kress (2003). //Literacy in the New Media Age//. London: Routledge.

Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel (2003) //New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning//. Buckingham: Open University Press.

David Buckingham (2003). //Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture//. Cambridge: Polity.