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Learn how to foster critical conversations in English language arts classrooms. This guide encourages teachers to engage students in noticing and discussing harmful discourses about race, gender, and other identities. The authors take readers through a framework that includes knowledge about power, a critical learner stance, critical pedagogies, critical talk moves, and vulnerability. The text features in-depth classroom examples from six secondary English language arts classrooms. Each chapter offers specific ways in which teachers can begin and sustain critical conversations with their students, including the creation of teacher inquiry groups that use transcript analysis as a learning tool. (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction 
Why Do We Need to Have Critical Conversations in Schools?
Book Overview
2. What Do Critical Conversations Look Like in Schools?
How are Critical Conversations Generative in ELA Classrooms?
Theories that Support Critical Conversations
Tensions of Critical Conversations
3. Building Knowledge About Power and Privilege: Confronting Dominant Narratives
Are All Perspectives Equally Valid?
Dominant Narratives of Gender and Sexuality
The Dominant Narrative of Individualism
Critical Conversations in Action: Intersections of Gender and Individualism
4. Engaging a Critical Learner Stance Through Racial Literacy
Practicing Critical Self-Reflection
What Is Critical Consciousness?
Engaging a Critical Learner Stance Through Racial Literacy
Strategies for Practicing a Critical Learner Stance
Try It Out: Engaging a Critical Learner Stance to Change Teaching Practice
5. Preparing Students for Critical Conversations: Creating a Critical Space
“Reading” Classroom Spaces with a Critical Lens
Establishing a Classroom Culture for Critical Conversations
Negotiating Tension and Modeling Repair
6. Making Meaning During Critical Conversations
Humanizing
Problematizing
Resistance During Critical Conversations
7. Sustaining Critical Conversations Through Critical Talk Moves
Critical Talk Moves
Critical Conversations: Carson’s Critical Talk Moves
Building Interactional Awareness about Critical Talk Moves 
8. Studying Critical Conversations in Teacher Inquiry Groups Using Transcripts
What are Inquiry Groups?
What Did Teachers Say They Learned in the Inquiry Groups? 
What Did Teachers Say They Learned from Analyzing Classroom Talk? 
Final Thoughts 
References
About the Authors