Critical Encounters in Secondary English

Deborah Appleman is the Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Contents (FINAL) Preface to the Fourth Edition ?ix Introduction ?1 1. ?What We Teach and Why: Contemporary Literary Theory and Adolescents ?3 2. ?Prisms of Possibilities: Introducing Multiple Perspectives ?18 3. ?The Lens of Reader Response: The Promise and Peril of Response-Based Pedagogy ?30 4. ?What's Class Got to Do With It? Reading Literature Through the Lens of Privilege and Social Class ?52 5. ?The Social Construction of Gender: A Lens of One's Own ?67 6. ?Columbus Did What? Postcolonialism in the Literature Classroom ?86 7. ?Critical Race Theory: Much Ado About Something ?98 8. ?Deconstruction: Postmodern Theory and the Postmodern High School Student ?113 9. ?Lenses and Learning Styles: Accommodating Student Plurality With Theoretical Plurality ?129 10. ?Critical Encounters: Reading the World ?142 Appendix: Classroom Activities ?150 Selected Literary Texts ?257 References ?260 Index ?266 About the Author ?274

Praise 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." -Teachers College, Columbia University