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Key Works in English Education Shaping a Discipline Ernest Morrell, Jamila Lyiscott, Cati de los Ríos, Antero Garcia, and Nicole Mirra, editors


This compilation is an essential resource for anyone committed to the power of language as a tool for equity, identity, and social change.


Key Works in English Education, envisioned by Ernest Morrell, provides a defi nitive map of how the discipline—which focuses on student agency and creativity—was shaped over the last several decades. The companion to Critical English Education: Enduring Voices, New Perspectives, this collection of over 60 essays showcases the scholars and texts that have redefi ned what it means to read and write in a changing world.


With NCTE articles, book excerpts, and other work at the center of the narrative, Key Works in English Education also demonstrates how a professional organization can infl uence an entire discipline— and how that discipline, in turn, can shape the minds and voices of the next generation of English educators. This compilation is an essential resource for anyone committed to the power of language as a tool for equity, identity, and social change.


The editors have generously agreed to donate royalties from the sale of the book, as well as Critical English Education, to NCTE. Morrell was the fi rst member of the editorial team to make this commitment, refl ective of his original vision for this publication and how deeply he believed English educators infl uence the world.


Key Works in English Education features Morrell’s seminal essay, “Critical English Education,” as well as works by Paulo Freire; Geneva Smitherman; Louise Rosenblatt; Miles Myers; James Britton; James Moff ett; James Squire; Yetta Goodman; Ken Goodman; Arthur Applebee; Janet Emig; Rudine Sims Bishop; Maxine Greene; Anne Haas Dyson; Allan Luke; Carol Lee; Luis Moll; Kris D. Gutiérrez; Keith Gilyard; Glynda Hull; Ernest Morrell; Ofelia García; Peter Smagorinsky; Michele Knobel; Colin Lankshear; Valerie Kinloch; Yolanda Sealey-Ruíz; Gholnecsar Muhammad; Maisha T. Winn; Anne Ruggles Gere; Kathy Short; P. David Pearson; David Bartholomae; and the editors.


500 pp. | 2026 | ISBN 9780814103135 $39.96 member/$49.99 nonmember | ebook: ISBN 9780814102142 GENERAL


Critical English Education Enduring Voices, New Perspectives Ernest Morrell, Nicole Mirra, Cati de los Ríos, Antero Garcia, and Jamila Lyiscott, editors


Critical English Education explores an ongoing movement in literacy studies that has fundamentally transformed scholarship and classroom instruction by situating reading and writing as creative practices that young people harness to understand themselves, analyze current social realities, and bring new civic possibilities into being.


This book provides important context for the conditions of today’s English classrooms. It features senior scholars and brave new voices in the fi eld of English language arts refl ecting on forces that shape research and practice in the teaching of English within the current political and educational climate—forces such as multicultural, sociocultural, postmodern, and critical theories; critical and culturally responsive pedagogies; and the discourses of multilingualism and translanguaging. The volume also examines the latest research and the most innovative practices in the teaching of writing, reading, and literary theory, and the uses of popular culture and other media.


Critical English Education is a major entry into critical English scholarship and an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the English education landscape.


Featuring essays by Nicole Mirra, Ernest Morrell, and Antero Garcia; Ofelia García and Kahdeidra Monét; Gloria Ladson-Billings; Sabine Little and Jennifer Rowsell; Maisha T. Winn; Limarys Caraballo; Cati de los Ríos; Mollie V. Blackburn; Rubén González and Antero Garcia; Stephanie Toliver; Jamila Lyiscott; Laurence Tan; and Kris D. Gutiérrez.


254 pp. | 2026 | ISBN 9780814102831 $31.96 member/$39.99 nonmember | ebook: ISBN 9780814102848 The editors are graciously donating all royalties from the sale of Key Works in English Education and Critical English Education to NCTE. To Order: phone 1-877-369-6283 | my.ncte.org/s/ | customerservice@ncte.org 3


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