Power, resistance, and literacy : writing for social justice

Students in public schools serving poor and working-class students are inundated by the effects of high-stakes examinations. Teachers are demoralized and students suffer substandard curricular and pedagogical experiences. These effects are articulated by students and teachers in the high school that...

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Main Author Gorlewski, Julie A. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
SeriesCritical constructions.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616497
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-407-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 225 pages) : illustrations

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Ira Shor -- Preface -- Part I. Power -- Chapter 1. Introduction: From neoliberalism to dialogicality -- Chapter 2. The study -- Chapter 3. Social class, writing instruction and identity construction -- Chapter 4. High-stakes testing: Social and emotional effects -- Chapter 5. Restricted literacies -- Part II. Resistance -- Chapter 6. Teaching or selling out? -- Chapter 7. Writing instruction: What "is" and what "ought to be" -- Chapter 8. Hints at hope, glimmers of resistance -- Chapter 9. Resistance literacy: Two approaches -- Chapter 10. Looking forward: Empowerment, social justice, and collective agency -- About the author. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a Students in public schools serving poor and working-class students are inundated by the effects of high-stakes examinations. Teachers are demoralized and students suffer substandard curricular and pedagogical experiences. These effects are articulated by students and teachers in the high school that provided the setting for the critical ethnography on which this text is based. Teachers resent being judged on the basis of students' performance on standardized assessments. They are deprofessionalized as their roles are oriented toward working-class norms. Students feel alienated by content that is meaningless and test-based pedagogies that are disempowering.While these findings are disturbing, critical theory provides a foundation for seeking hope. By incorporating inquiry and dialogue, this theoretical framework opens a space where resistance can be revealed and examined. In this case, the study exposed glimmers of resistance, spaces in the structure of schooling where students and teachers critique the system and suggest ways of subverting the negative effects of the neoliberal reforms through dialogic, empowering, culturally responsive pedagogies.Collective resistance, achieved through dialogic pedagogies that build on understandings of resistance and power, can cultivate theoretical and material spaces where a cycle of praxis can enhance possibilities for social justice. To that end, the conclusion is devoted to the implementation of critical, dialogic approaches to literacies, approaches intended to interrupt the hegemonic influences that perpetuate social reproduction by capitalizing on the potential for solidarity and collective agency among the students and teachers who populate and educate the working classes. This book would interest teacher educators, teachers, and school administrators. 
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