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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... words of Lankshear and Lawler ( 1987 ) , a literacy that enables students to become properly literate : a literacy of hope and possibility , of affirmation and acceptance ; a literacy that challenges us to look beyond our limited ...
... words of Lankshear and Lawler ( 1987 ) , a literacy that enables students to become properly literate : a literacy of hope and possibility , of affirmation and acceptance ; a literacy that challenges us to look beyond our limited ...
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... words , children learn that language is used both to convey and to explore ideas , and these social functions are acquired and practiced through participation with others in the act of communicating . cc Like spoken language , written ...
... words , children learn that language is used both to convey and to explore ideas , and these social functions are acquired and practiced through participation with others in the act of communicating . cc Like spoken language , written ...
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... words on the page . Although perhaps not as ob- vious as the collaboration involved in conversational speech , written language is also collaborative in that it involves a shared participation in the negotia- tion of meaning . Both ...
... words on the page . Although perhaps not as ob- vious as the collaboration involved in conversational speech , written language is also collaborative in that it involves a shared participation in the negotia- tion of meaning . Both ...
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... words of Keesing ( 1974 , p . 89 ) , culture is " not all of what an individual knows and thinks and feels about his world . It is his the- ory of what his fellows know , believe , and mean , his theory of the code being followed , the ...
... words of Keesing ( 1974 , p . 89 ) , culture is " not all of what an individual knows and thinks and feels about his world . It is his the- ory of what his fellows know , believe , and mean , his theory of the code being followed , the ...
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... words , literacy in school reflects the larger society in that it is contrived within a com- petitive and meritocratic social system that gives some the authority to estab- lish the criteria for evaluation , and hence , the authority to ...
... words , literacy in school reflects the larger society in that it is contrived within a com- petitive and meritocratic social system that gives some the authority to estab- lish the criteria for evaluation , and hence , the authority to ...
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