Becoming political : readings and writings in the politics of literacy education / edited by Patrick Shannon

Additional Titles:: Readings and writings in the politics of literacy education
Published:: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [1992]
Copyright Date:: ©1992
Physical Description:: x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators:: Shannon, Patrick, 1951-

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Critical literacy and student experience: Donald Graves' approach to literacy / Henry A. Giroux -- What is literacy? / James Paul Gee -- Oral and literate traditions among Black Americans living inpoverty / Shirley Brice Heath -- Choosing our own way: subjectivity in the literacy classroom / Patrick Shannon -- Tale of a reluctant dragon / Katherine Paterson -- Happily ever after / Stephanie S. Tolan -- Overt and covert censorship of children's books / Patrick Shannon -- Inside the classroom: social vision and critical pedagogy / William Bigelow --, Children's understandings of basal readers / David Bloome, Sonia Nieto -- On the subjects of class and gender in "the literacy letters" / Linda Brodkey -- "Gimme room": school resistance, attitude, and access to literacy / Perry Gilmore -- Reading instruction and social class / Patrick Shannon -- Empowerment as a pedagogy of possibility / Roger I. Simon -- Toward a pedagogy of possibility in the teaching of English internationally: people's English in South Africa / Bronwyn Norton Peirce -- Riverwest neighbors win new Fratney school / Sue Bietila, David Levine --, A vision in two languages: reflections on a two-way bilingual program / Rita Tenorio -- commercial reading materials, a technological ideology, and the deskilling of teachers / Patrick Shannon -- Consensus and difference in collaborative learning / John Trimbur -- Conversations with parents: talking aobut literacy and living / Lynn Moody -- How it all starts / Cathy Townsend-Fuller, Jill Hartling-Clark -- Rethinking whole language: the politics of educational change / Susan M. Church --, and A rationale and unit plan for introducing gay and lesbian literature into the grade 12 curriculum / Roberta F. Hammett -- Developing a community of learners inside and outside the classroom / Audrey Sturk -- Opportunity through politics: the game of schooling / Jeanette L. Bishop, Susan M. Cameron -- Out of the straitjacket / Linda Cook.

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0435087010
9780435087012

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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