Books by Brett Elizabeth Blake

Reviews the history of writing, moves to highlight the "process approach" movement and how the movement changed how educators viewed and, thereby taught, writing. Chapters present a different genre of writing and include prompts and examples to help educators return to authentic writing, where the voice of the students take center stage.

A Road Less Travelled: Critical literacy and language learning in the classroom -- 1964-1996 takes us through what the Blake calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts.

A Culture of Refusal is a unique attempt at representing a set of what William Ayers calls «multiply-marginalized» adolescents, situating the voices of migrant and incarcerated youth within out-of-school contexts ¿ in the fields and the streets, and ultimately, in the jails ¿ where these youth live and develop their own cultures of refusal. By exploring and analyzing these environments, this book searches for the ways in which a pragmatic, pro-active response to societal and institutional racism and violence may be nurtured through the adolescents¿ own lives and literacies.