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Literacy in the Library - Negotiating the Spaces Between Order and Desire (Hardcover, New)
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Literacy in the Library - Negotiating the Spaces Between Order and Desire (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
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This critical ethnography of school libraries contributes to the
study of the politics of literacy at the elementary school level as
well as provides an interesting case study of "border crossing."
The book interrogates two accounts of social reproduction and
proposes a third. Students at working-poor Chavez Elementary
resisted attempts to get them "hooked" on reading fiction, but
while many were socialized to the labor of a piecework economy,
many also found ways to use texts as they chose. At
professional-managerial Crest Hills, students managed their
discourse practices in ways that reproduced those of their office
workplace, but their success was achieved at the expense of great
anxiety about the future. At working-class Roosevelt, the
librarians attended to the rhetoric of librarianship, but students
reassembled knowledge on their own terms. A second project
theorizes the school library as a geopolitical space, and critiques
children's fiction and the social order that its texts help
construct through a semiotic analysis of text classification within
school libraries. An investigation of the origins of that system
and of the ways of reading that it promotes--with particular
attention to the history of the popular novel--describes the
gender- and class-based politics of leisure reading.
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