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
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616497
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-407-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 225 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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