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 * Welcome to English Education at Michigan State University!**

This wikispace serves the diverse people associated with MSU's English Education programs, including the College of Education; Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures; Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy. This space is managed by the program of English Education within the College of Education. We hope to communicate across both virtual and physical spaces serving English Educators associated with Michigan State University and beyond. Thank you for visiting us, and please contribute! The "Discussion" tab above allows you to comment and discuss ideas with other English Education folk using this wikispace. We look forward to working with you and engaging in work that supports and challenges notions of what it means to do English Education. Thank you for joining us!


 * MSU English Education Program Philosophy Statement**

The English Education program at Michigan State University (MSU) strives to achieve a Janus-faced view of the field. We equip English teachers to participate in and contribute to established traditions of language arts instruction in the English-speaking countries. Yet we locate and question those traditions of English teaching within a broader context of discourse study, that is the study of language-in-use. In an increasingly global society, discourse-focused preparation prepares teachers to thrive in a wide variety of teaching and learning contexts. Our discourse-centered view of English language arts frames such traditional activities as close reading, response to literature, grammar study, and composition as situated practices with particular histories that serve various personal, social, political, and curricular goals. We recognize the values and pleasures of such practices as literary study and creative and academic writing, as well as the continuing cultural expectations inhering in these practices. At the same time, we respect the values and pleasures attached to the social practices and discourses of diverse contemporary middle and high school students by developing and cultivating relationships through dialogic inquiry. Dialogic English educators use students’ life experiences, voices, and local language and literacy practices as resources for helping students develop and expand their universes of discourse. Yet today’s English teachers also enter a field expanding in terms of content, skills, and global reach through rapidly-changing social networking and media technologies. Teachers emerging from the MSU English Education program produce and use a range of discourses in ongoing global conversations about language, literacies, and learning.

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 * MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ENGLISH EDUCATION AT MSU:**
 * [|College of Education]**
 * Critical Studies in Literacy and Pedagogy**
 * Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC)**
 * **[|Graduate Program]**
 * **[|Undergraduate Program]**


 * MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WORLD LANGUAGES AT MSU:**
 * World Language Program**