Critical Encounters in Secondary English - Fourth Edition

Grounded in solid theory with new field-tested classroom activities, the fourth edition of Critical Encounters in Secondary English continues to help teachers integrate the lenses of contemporary literary theory into practices that have always defined good pedagogy.

The most significant change for this edition is the addition of a full chapter on critical race theory (CRT) as an analytical lens.

CRT offers teachers fresh opportunities for interdisciplinary planning and teaching, as it lends itself to lessons that encompass a variety of disciplines such as history, sociology, psychology, and science. As with the previous edition, each chapter concludes with a list of suggested nonfiction pieces that work well for the particular lens under discussion.

Critical Encounters
in Secondary English - Fourth Edition

Grounded in solid theory with new field-tested classroom activities, the fourth edition of Critical Encounters in Secondary English continues to help teachers integrate the lenses of contemporary literary theory into practices that have always defined good pedagogy.

The most significant change for this edition is the addition of a full chapter on critical race theory (CRT) as an analytical lens. CRT offers teachers fresh opportunities for interdisciplinary planning and teaching, as it lends itself to lessons that encompass a variety of disciplines such as history, sociology, psychology, and science. As with the previous edition, each chapter concludes with a list of suggested nonfiction pieces that work well for the particular lens under discussion.

This popular text provides a comprehensive approach to incorporating nonfiction and informational texts into the literature classroom with new and revised classroom activities appropriate for today’s students.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press (December 22, 2023)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 9780807768402
Sheridan Blau
Sheridan Blauformer president, NCTE and professor emeritus, The University of California, Santa Barbara
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“Deborah Appleman has done more than any other educational leader in America to rescue and revitalize the teaching of literature. This new edition of her classic book makes it even more relevant to the lives and concerns of today's students, and more helpful to classroom teachers of literature everywhere.”
Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Jeffrey D. WilhelmDistinguished Professor of English Education, Boise State University
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“If you believe that literature can be powerful and transformative, this book will supercharge your teaching. Deborah Appleman provides readers with tools and questions to support reading in ways that promote its transformational possibilities, develop social imagination, and support readers to reach their own illuminating conclusions. This edition includes a courageous new chapter on critical race theory, which takes the proverbial bull by the horns. This book does the work of personal and social transformation and more: It does the work of democracy.”
Mike Rose
Mike RoseUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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“What a smart and useful book! It provides teachers with a wealth of knowledge and material to help their students develop critical perspective and suppleness of thought.”
Ernest Morrell
Ernest MorrellTeachers College, Columbia University
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“This third edition proves that Appleman still has her hand on the pulse of the rapidly changing landscape of education.”
Sheridan Blau
Sheridan BlauTeachers College, Columbia University
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“This new edition of Deborah Appleman’s now classic book demonstrates even more dramatically than previously how the critical theories she so skillfully teaches serve not only as lenses for the reading of literature, but as tools for discovering, interrogating, and challenging injustice, hypocrisy, and the hidden power relations that students are likely to encounter.”
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