Over the past two years or so, I have been speaking publicly about the need for textbooks in the college/university language classroom that reflect an inclusive teaching philosophy and that support equitable classroom engagement.  Unfortunately, I haven't seen nor heard of the publication of a single textbook that would accommodate this type of classroom philosophy.  I admit that the details of just what the characteristics of the textbook that would be appropriate in this type of classroom...

In 1932, several of the speeches of George S. Counts, the U.S. American educator and activist, in which he tried to "alert educators to...

Why I believe literature teaching needs a pedagogy A liberatory design Teaching is, to me, one of the most honorable and important professions in the world. It doesn't matter where you teach or at what level, you are making a great contribution to society and the world--to the present and for the future--because you teach. The problem is that, for some, the way we teach isn't as important as what we teach. I believe that all good teaching--that is, every place learning is taking place-- is...