" This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to
school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting
instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served;
it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of
color bring; and it gives us hope for educating a generation that
can change the status quo, that will build the America we have yet
to see...the one that made that as-yet-unfulfilled promise of
?liberty and justice for all.?"
Lisa Delpit, From the Foreword
Toward a Literacy of Promise examines popular assumptions about
literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used
historically both to empower and to oppress. The authors offer an
alternative view of literacy ? a "literacy of promise" ? that
charts an emancipatory agenda for literacy instructional practices
in schools. Weaving together critical perspectives on pedagogy,
language, literature, and popular texts, each chapter provides an
in-depth discussion that illuminates how a literacy of promise can
be realized in school and classrooms. Although the major focus is
on African American middle and secondary students as a population
that has experienced the consequences of inequality, the chapters
demonstrate general and specific applications to other
populations.
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