| Description |
xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index. |
| Contents |
Title, Author, and Hard-Bitten Schoolteachers -- A Distinctively Un-American Idea: An Education Appropriate to Their Station -- Harsh Schools, Big Boys, and the Progressive Solution -- Oppositional Identity: Identifying "Us" as "Not Them" -- The Lads -- Changing Conditions--Entrenched Schools -- Class, Control, Language, and Literacy -- Where Literacy "Emerges" -- Where Children Are Taught to Sit Still and Listen -- The Last Straw: There's Literacy, and Then There's Literacy -- Literacy with an Attitude -- Not Quite Making Literacy Dangerous Again -- Making Literacy Dangerous Again -- Taking Sides -- Mad as Hell, and Not Going to Take It Any More. |
| Summary |
"This book is for teachers, parents, and community organizers who are on the side of working-class children. It's about the resistance of working-class children to the kind of education they typically receive, education designed to make them useful workers and obedient citizens. It's about working-class habits of communication and ways of using language that interface with schooling. It's about a new brand of teachers, followers of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire who are developing effective methods for teaching powerful literacy in American working-class classrooms. It's about teacher networks where teachers devoted to equity and justice find mutual support. And it's about community organizers who are bringing working-class parents together around education issues and helping them mount effective demands for powerful literacy for their children."--Jacket. |
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Working class -- Education -- United States.
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Literacy -- United States.
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Language arts -- United States.
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Language arts. (OCoLC)fst00992284
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Literacy. (OCoLC)fst00999859
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Working class -- Education.
(OCoLC)fst01180443
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Schule.
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Arbeiterkind.
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Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit.
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Leseunterricht.
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United States.
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| ISBN |
0791442853 (alk. paper) |
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9780791442852 (alk. paper) |
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0791442861 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780791442869 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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