CHALLENGE AND CHANGE IN SCHOLASTIC JOURNALISM AS RELATED TO THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Stacy Haynes-Moore (Teaching and Learning, Language, Literacy and Culture, Iowa City, IA 52242-5500, U.S.A. She is also a language arts teacher at Kennedy High School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402-2212.)

Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
Vol 13, No 2: Desember 2013

Changing notions of literacy impact and complicate ways in which English language arts educators adapt curriculum in meaningful ways for students. In this paper, I position scholastic journalism as authentic, 21st It is a wintery Saturday morning and a small group of student writers and editors wait outside Publications Room 70 eager for me to unlock the school door. The group is ready to work. They century ELA coursework. I provide an historical overview of scholastic journalism. I emphasize impacts of media law, emergent technologies, and redesigned school literacy goals to the ways in which scholastic journalism negotiates acceptance within ELA curriculum.