{"product_id":"9781350142893","title":"Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts : A Vygotskian Perspective on Beginning Teachers’ Pedagogical Concept Development","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLearning to Teach English and the Language Arts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peter Smagorinsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing   together Smagorinsky's extensive research over a 20-year period, \u003ci\u003eLearning to Teach English and the Language Arts \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how beginning teachers' pedagogical concepts are shaped by a variety   of influences. Challenging popular thinking about the binary roles of teacher   education programs and school-based experiences in the process of learning to   teach, Smagorinsky illustrates, through case studies in the disciplines of   English and the Language Arts, that teacher education programs and classroom\/school   contexts are not discrete contexts for learning about teaching, nor are each   of these contexts unified in the messages they offer about teaching. He   explores the tensions, not only between these contexts and others, but within   them to illustrate the social, cultural, contextual, political and historical   complexity of learning to teach. Smagorinsky revisits familiar theoretical   understandings, including Vygotsky's concept development and Lortie's   apprenticeship of observation, to consider their implications for teachers   today and to examine what teacher candidates learn during their teacher   education experiences and how that learning shapes their development as   teachers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Smagorinsky takes the well-worn battle between theory and practice in teacher education and blurs the distinctions. His case studies provide a rich source of evidence of how people learn to teach under the notion of concept development.” —\u003ci\u003eBethan Marshall,Senior Lecturer, King's College London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Smagorinsky skillfully weaves together Vygotskian theory, case study research and pedagogical implication to offer an engaging, insightful examination of the many factors that shape the teaching of English and the language arts.” —\u003ci\u003eMelanie Shoffner, Associate Professor of English Education, James Madison University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350142893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40717553238222,"sku":"9781350142893","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_143de50d-986f-463c-8179-93c1d52f923a.jpg?v=1641016235","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350142893","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}