Literacy with an attitude : educating working-class children in their own self-interest
"This book is for teachers, parents, and community organizers who are on the side of working-class children. It's about the resistance of working-class children to the kind of education they typically receive, education designed to make them useful workers and obedient citizens. It's about working-class habits of communication and ways of using language that interface with schooling. It's about a new brand of teachers, followers of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire who are developing effective methods for teaching powerful literacy in American working-class classrooms. It's about teacher networks where teachers devoted to equity and justice find mutual support. And it's about community organizers who are bringing working-class parents together around education issues and helping them mount effective demands for powerful literacy for their children."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©1999
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1999
Index
1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages) : illustrations
9780585280943, 9780791442852, 9780791442869, 0585280940, 0791442853, 0791442861
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