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Title For a better world : reading and writing for social action / Randy Bomer & Katherine Bomer.

Publication Info.	Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2001]
	©2001

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	372.6 B695F	Check Shelf

Description	ix, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and index.
Contents	Introduction: questioning our teaching and making it better -- Literacy education for democratic participation -- Justice in so many words: concepts for critical reading -- Great talks about important ideas: strategies for critical conversations in reading -- Democracy beyond words: social structures in the reading workshop: Exploring reading lives -- Independent reading -- Whole-class shared reading -- Reading clubs -- Struggling and difficulty in reading: managing vulnerability -- A democratic environment: a place to foster public voices -- Noticing the world: writers notebooks as tools for social critique -- Writing for social action: collaborating on texts for public purposes -- Teachers as political agents -- Breaking the silence: the politics of children's personal writing.
Subject	Language arts -- Social aspects -- United States.
	English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- United States.
	Critical pedagogy -- United States.
	Social justice -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Added Author	Bomer, Katherine.
Added Title	Reading and writing for social action
Other Form:	Online version: Bomer, Randy. For a better world. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2001 (OCoLC)622100223
ISBN	0325002630 alkaline paper
	9780325002637 alkaline paper

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