Pose, Wobble, Flow: A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction

Antero Garcia,Cindy O'Donnell-Allen

Pose, Wobble, Flow: A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Teachers' College Press
Country
United States
Published
11 September 2015
Pages
176
ISBN
9780807756522

Pose, Wobble, Flow: A Culturally Proactive Approach to Literacy Instruction

Antero Garcia,Cindy O'Donnell-Allen

This book proposes a pedagogical model called Pose, Wobble, Flow to encapsulate the challenge of teaching and the process of growing as an educator who questions existing inequities in schooling and society and frames teaching around a commitment to changing them. The authors provide six different culturally proactive teaching stances or poses that secondary ELA teachers can use to meet the needs of all students, whether they are historically marginalized or privileged. They describe how teachers can expect to wobble as they adapt instruction to the needs of their students, while also incorporating new insights about their own cultural positionality and preconceptions about teaching. Teachers are encouraged to recognize this flexibility as a positive process or flow that can be used to address challenges and adopt ambitious teaching strategies like those depicted in this book. Each chapter highlights a particular pose, describes how to work through common wobbles, incorporates teacher voices, and provides questions for further discussion. Pose, Wobble, Flow presents a promising framework for disrupting the pervasive myth that there is one set of surefire, culturally neutral best practices.

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