Teaching the canon in 21st century classrooms : : challenging genres / / edited by Michael Macaluso and Kati Macaluso.

• TeilnehmendeR: Macaluso, Michael A. 1986-; Macaluso, Kati,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : Brill | Sense,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page /; List of Figures and Tables /; Introduction /; Decentering the Canon /; Curating against the Canon /; What do Olympians, Lowriders, and Shailene Woodley have to do with Language Arts? /; Shattering Literary Windows and Mirrors /; Making Contemporary Connections /; Still Fighting for Migrant Workers’ Rights 75 Years Later /; Examining Islands Across Contexts /; Teaching the House on Mango Street in the #Metoo ERA /; Fostering Critical Social Consciousness through “Text-to-Software” Connections with Brave New World /; Applying Critical Lenses /; A Critical Race Approach to Teaching to Kill A Mockingbird /; Using Counterstories to Critique Racism /; Class is in Session /; Interrupting Ideologies within the Canon /; Considering Whom we Teach /; A Critical Emotional Approach to Canonical Literature /; Canonical Texts and Cultural Critique with English Learners /; “This Ain’t got Nuttin to do with my Life” /; Teaching Critically for Freedom with 1984 /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004389318
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Michael Macaluso and Kati Macaluso.

The canon, as much an ideology as it is a body of texts perceived to be intrinsic to the high school English classroom, has come under scrutiny for maintaining status quo narratives about whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, ability, and even those associated with American ideals of self-reliance, the good life, and the self-made man. Teaching practices around these texts may also reinforce harmful practices and ways of thinking, including those connected to notions of culture, literary merit, and methods of reading, teaching, and learning. Teaching the Canon in 21st Century Classrooms offers innovative, critical ways of reading, thinking about, and teaching canonical texts in 21st century classrooms. Responding to the increasingly pluralized, digitized, global 21st century English classroom, chapter authors make explicit the ideologies of a canonical text of focus, while also elaborating a pedagogical approach that de-centers the canon, bridges past and present, applies critical theory, and celebrates the rich identities of 21st century readers. In using this book, teachers will be especially poised to take on the canon in their classroom and, thus, to open up their curricula to ideas, values, concerns, and narratives beyond those embedded in the canonical texts.