Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents (Language and Literacy Series)

Review

“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.”―Sheridan Blau, former president, NCTE and professor emeritus, The University of California, Santa Barbara“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.”―Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Distinguished Professor of English Education, Boise State UniversityPraise for the Third Edition“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.”―Mike Rose, University of California, Los Angeles“This third edition proves that Appleman still has her hand on the pulse of the rapidly changing landscape of education.”―Ernest Morrell, Teachers College, Columbia University“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.” ―Sheridan Blau, Teachers College, Columbia University

Sheridan Blau

“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.”―Sheridan Blau, former president, NCTE and professor emeritus, The University of California, Santa Barbara