Literacy as a Moral Imperative: Facing the Challenges of a Pluralistic SocietyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 8. sep. 1999 - 168 sider In this important new book on literacy and teaching practices, education scholar and former schoolteacher Rebecca Powell argues that the decisions we make about literacy in a pluralistic society are fundamentally moral ones, either supporting inequitable power relationships, or seeking to transform them. Powell explores the underlying ideological assumptions of Oschooled literacyO and examines the ways teaching practices create tensions in the lives of students—tensions that often result in alienation and educational failure, particularly among those whose cultural knowledge and language tends to be marginalized in our nationOs schools. While primarily ground in critical theory, this volume also draws from multicultural and holistic perspectives in the teaching of written and oral language and addresses the link between whole language and critical pedagogy. Thus, the text is both theoretical and practical. Powell effectively argues that literacy instruction should encourage social responsibility and civic action, should enable students and teachers to understand the transformative potential of language, and should nurture a culture of compassion and care. |
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... Promoting a Critical Literacy Chapter 6 : Toward a Transformative Vision Afterword : One Teacher's Journey References Index About the Author 39 57 79 97 ཀླུ ་ ཥི རི བ མངའི 125 129 141 153 Acknowledgments No work is ever the result of a ...
... Promoting a Critical Literacy Chapter 6 : Toward a Transformative Vision Afterword : One Teacher's Journey References Index About the Author 39 57 79 97 ཀླུ ་ ཥི རི བ མངའི 125 129 141 153 Acknowledgments No work is ever the result of a ...
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... promoting critical analysis . As argued in the next chapter , this view of literacy obscures human authorship and con- sequently denies the social and cultural dimensions of written language . The tracking and sorting practices that ...
... promoting critical analysis . As argued in the next chapter , this view of literacy obscures human authorship and con- sequently denies the social and cultural dimensions of written language . The tracking and sorting practices that ...
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... promote national unity and cultural integration . Because written and oral texts are socially and culturally constructed , they represent particular realities — the realities of those who have the authority to define them at any given ...
... promote national unity and cultural integration . Because written and oral texts are socially and culturally constructed , they represent particular realities — the realities of those who have the authority to define them at any given ...
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... promoting literacy standards that amplify objective knowledge and that value the acquisition and transmission of empirical data . It is indeed difficult for those of us who have been socialized to accept the superiority of a highly ra ...
... promoting literacy standards that amplify objective knowledge and that value the acquisition and transmission of empirical data . It is indeed difficult for those of us who have been socialized to accept the superiority of a highly ra ...
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... promotes separateness ; individuals are seen as culturally deprived , linguistically disadvantaged , lacking the mo- tivation to succeed . Further , the prose of academe creates a form of linguistic exclusion that denies educational ...
... promotes separateness ; individuals are seen as culturally deprived , linguistically disadvantaged , lacking the mo- tivation to succeed . Further , the prose of academe creates a form of linguistic exclusion that denies educational ...
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