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The changing nature of literacy, the technocratic demands on the K-16 literacy curricula from an information-based economy, the fragmentation of college English departments, and external constraints imposed by the latest testing regime leave educators alienated, ambivalent arbiters of a hotly contested and highly ambiguous discipline. At the same time, the proliferation of new literacies; the development of women’s studies and cultural studies; and the emergence of semiotics, discourse, and critical literary theories have made the study of language, literacy, and literature as relevant and desirable as ever. What we need, for the profession, for preservice teacher education, and for the students in secondary classrooms is an increased emphasis on a Critical English Education. (Critical English Education Ernest Morrell)
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