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Advocacy Research in Literacy Education - Seeking Higher Ground (Hardcover)
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Advocacy Research in Literacy Education - Seeking Higher Ground (Hardcover)
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This book reviews what the authors term advocacy research in
literacy education-research that explicitly addresses issues of
social justice, equity, and democracy with the distinct purpose of
social transformation. It surveys what educational researchers who
are working for social justice have accomplished, describes current
challenges, and outlines future possibilities. The first section
maps the terrain of advocacy research in literacy education. The
authors group this large and expanding body of research into four
categories: Critical Literacy(ies); Radical Counternarratives in
Literacy Research; Literacy as Social Practice; and Linguistic
Studies. Each chapter describes the research area, traces its
history, provides example studies, and assesses the contributions
of research to advocacy work now and potentially in the future. The
second section provides a deeper consideration of challenges to the
field of advocacy research and suggests future directions for
research and scholarship; this section reflects the need to
complicate and trouble the terms and relations between and among
social justice, ethics, democracy, freedom, and literacy. As a
whole, this book is a response to the current popular
understandings of literacy education that limit the efficacy of
advocacy work in these troubled times-understandings that support
the proliferation of standardized testing, teacher testing, and
scripted lessons and programs, along with the privileging of
particular forms of research. Intended for those who work or soon
will work in literacy education-students, teacher educators,
researchers, and practitioners-this book represents the authors'
belief that it is time for advocacy workers to strengthen and
intensify their efforts to promote the most principled, effective
literacy education for democratic life. It is their hope that this
book will contribute to such an effort.
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