Breakthroughs in College Reading : The Promises and Tensions of Disciplinary Reading Apprenticeships - Nelson Graff

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Breakthroughs in College Reading

The Promises and Tensions of Disciplinary Reading Apprenticeships

By: Nelson Graff (Editor), Rebecca Kersnar (Editor), Nika Hogan (Editor)

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Paperback | 15 September 2024

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236 Pages

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This collection combines scholarship, reflection, and practitioner stories of classroom teaching. It begins by reporting the results of a survey of 86 college faculty and staff regarding breakthroughs in their teaching of reading and proposes three tentative threshold concepts and what the editors call a meta-concept undergirding those threshold concepts. Contributors from writing studies, English, first-year seminar, chemistry, biology, psychology, mathematics and other disciplines describe their strategies for engaging college students in reading in their disciplines, sharing what they have learned from their years of experience using the Reading Apprenticeship framework in the classroom. Chapters that elaborate on that framework and on the tensions of academic apprenticeship round out the collection.

The collection is motivated by the question, How do we help college students become independent learners in their disciplines? In it, the editors and contributors argue that we do so by supporting students in learning from texts. In order to do so effectively, college faculty must recognize reading as a problem-solving process, encourage and support students in taking responsibility for the intellectual work in their classes, and create strong classroom communities that help students develop identities as scholars. When we truly engage in a reciprocal academic apprenticeship with our students--valuing what they bring to our disciplines as much as what our disciplines offer them--we transform our classrooms and the academy itself. The authors in this collection illustrate this difficult and rewarding work with stories of and reflections on the practices in their own contexts that begin to make this shift.

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This book offers compelling accounts of how the Reading Apprenticeship framework supports students' work with disciplinary texts. In arguing for three conceptual thresholds that faculty must cross to use reading effectively in their courses, this sweeping collection outlines a transformative teaching practice that has the potential to help students gain the discipline-specific literacy skills they need to succeed in college and beyond. It's a must read for faculty across the disciplines.

--Ellen Carillo, professor and Writing Program Coordinator, University of Connecticut

Be prepared to be challenged and inspired by these testimonies of teachers of history, chemistry, math, writing, ESL, librarianship, and more who have integrated Reading Apprenticeship into their practice. These candid accounts of change, growth, and hard-won rewards are simply fantastic-- as are the rich and wise principles that underlie this cogent method of teaching and learning. Read this book and spread the word!

--Professor Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, author of Literacy in American Lives

This collection makes available a rich and multi-dimensional pedagogy for the "messy" art and "risky business" of reading in the college setting. Faculty teaching online or in person, across first year courses and into the disciplines--particularly in the sciences and mathematics--will find the ideas and attitudes modeled here extremely valuable for addressing students from diverse backgrounds as active and intelligent learners. I urge college teachers to read and learn from the authors' wise stories.

--Eli Goldblatt, author of Alone with Each Other: Literacy and Literature Intertwined

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