"This book will share the benefits of empowering and engaging students at all levels of education through the use of academic discourse. Presented in this book is a critical examination of discourse, types of discourse, and how discourse can be used to empower students. The book will provide insights for educators to become more knowledgeable, and therefore better equipped, to create spaces through discourse where cultural competence is cultivated. Readers will: Examine discourse as power; connections between discourse practices, culture, language, and identity; and how teachers promote culturally and linguistically sustaining discourse practices in classroom communities. Consider classroom structures that emphasize instructional conversations, equitable participation, and extended student dialogue. Explore instructional approaches to minimize traditional teacher-centered discourse patterns and emphasize opportunities for students to engage in authentic academic conversations while developing linguistic competence. Interrogate and grapple with assumptions and biases around specific language standards; whose voices are included or excluded; and how voices are honored in the classroom"-- Provided by publisher.

Empowering teachers for cultural and linguistic diversity via multimodal critical identity collages / Deborah Romero -- Fostering science discourse in teacher education : elementary teaching candidates publish narrative podcasts / Aaron Gierhart -- Sharing untold stories : discussion pedagogy and authentic learning in the social studies / Christopher Dague -- Dialogic interactions in genre-based writing and learning / Zoi A. Traga Philippakos, Ashley Voggt -- Dialogic interactions across the implementation of strategies in genre-based writing and learning / Zoi Philippakos -- Classroom discord, challenges and approaches / Adam McGhee.