Power, resistance, and literacy : writing for social justice

• Main Author: Gorlewski, Julie A. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
• Series: Critical constructions.
• Subjects: English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching (Secondary) > Case studies.; Composition (Language arts) > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.; Children with social disabilities > Education (Secondary) > United States > Case studies.; Critical pedagogy > United States > Case studies.; elektronické knihy; Case studies.; Education > Teaching > Subjects > Language Arts.; Disability: social aspects.; Teaching of reading, writing and numeracy.; Educational: Language, literature and literacy.; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616497
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-407-6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 225 pages) : illustrations

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...