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Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling (Paperback, New)
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"Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling" brings critical
ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power
in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how
literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and
how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge,
discourses, and literacy practices "count." Part I examines
tensions between the local and the general in literacy development
and use; Part II considers face-to-face interactions surrounding
literacy practices in ethnically diverse classrooms; and Part III
widens the ethnographic lens to position literacy practices in the
context of globalization and contemporary education policies. Each
section includes a substantive introduction by the editor and a
synthetic commentary by a leading literacy researcher.
Above all, this is a book oriented toward social action. Unpacking
the complexity of literacy practices and experiences in diverse
settings, the authors seek not onlyto build new knowledge, but to
inform and transform the pedagogies and policies that limit human
potentials. The chapters in this volume have much to teach us about
the roots of inequality and the possibilities for positive change.
Together, they highlight the urgent need for critical literacy
researchers to engage politically, confronting education policies
that deny the rich multiplicity of human literacies, thereby
carving ever-deeper cleavages between those with and without access
to literacies of power.
The dual focus on language and literacy with critical-ethnographic
accounts of identity and schooling speaks to a growing constituency
of scholars and practitioners concerned with the role ofliteracy
and discourse in alternatively affirming or negating knowledge,
power, and identity, both within and outside of schools.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2005 |
First published: |
2005 |
Editors: |
Teresa L. McCarty
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
346 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8058-4647-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Philosophy of education
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LSN: |
0-8058-4647-6 |
Barcode: |
9780805846478 |
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