“Silence Signals Consent”: A Review of The Civically Engaged Classroom

Abstract

A review of Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, and Marc Todd's The Civically Engaged Classroom: Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change (Heinemann, 2021). The review focuses on the book's multifaceted rationale for engaging pressing social issues in the classroom, including how civic engagement promotes a deep engagement with key facets of literacy pedagogy. It also describes the book's numerous tangible pedagogical resources. It ends by acknowledging the sometimes contentious local context for the important work that the authors are calling for.