ISBN:
0585381852
,
0805837930
,
9780805837933
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 290 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms
DDC:
302.2244
Keywords:
Literacy Social aspects
;
Critical pedagogy
Abstract:
Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their students through literacy education--from university classrooms in the United States, England, and South
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; I Critical From the Start: Examining Relations of Power in Textual Practices; 1 Relational Sense and Textual Sense in a U.S. Urban Classroom: The Contested Case of Emily, Girl Friend of a Ninja; 2 Children Appropriating Literacy: Empowerment Pedagogy From Young Children's Perspective; 3 Children Reading Critically: A Local History; 4 Constructing a Critical Curriculum With Young Children; II Exploring Critical Literacies in Primary Schooling: Unresolved Questions
Description / Table of Contents:
5 From Prescription to Participation: Moving From Functional to Critical Literacy in Singapore6 Resistance and Creativity in English Reading Lessons in Hong Kong; 7 On the Road to Cultural Bias: A Critique of The Oregon Trail CD-ROM; 8 Teaching Readings?; III Critical Literacies and Questions of Identity; 9 Identity and Conflict in the Critical Literacy Classroom; 10 Classrooms as Sites of Textual, Cultural, and Linguistic Reappropriation; 11 "Dickheads, Wuses, and Faggots": Addressing Issues of Masculinity and Homophobia in the Critical Literacy Classroom
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Ta(I)king Back: Dialogizing AuthorshipIV Tertiary Education as a Site for Critical Literacies; 13 Critical Literacy in the Second Language Classroom: Power and Control; 14 Building Bridges/Making Meanings: Texts of Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy in Theoiy and Practice; 15 Responding to Academic Discourse: Developing Critical Literacy at a South African University; 16 Tensions and Ambiguities in Critical Literacy; 17 Critical Literacies and Local Action: Teacher Knowledge and a "New" Research Agenda; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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