Literacy and Power

2009-10-16
Literacy and Power

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  • Author: Hilary Janks
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135197830
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education − domination (power), access, diversity, design − foreground one over the other, but are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create possibilities for redesign and social action that serve a social justice agenda. She examines the theory underpinning each orientation, and develops new theory in the argument for interdependence and integration. Sitting at the interface between theory and practice, constantly moving from one to the other, the text is rich with examples of how to use these orientations in real teaching contexts, and how to use them to counterbalance one another. In the groundbreaking final chapter Janks considers how the rationalist underpinning of critical literacy tends to exclude the non-rational shows ways of working ‘beyond reason’ − pleasure and play, desire and the unconscious − and makes the case that these need to be taken seriously given their power to cut across the work of critical literacy educators working from any orientation.

Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling

2006-04-21
Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling

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  • Author: Teresa L. McCarty
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135621829
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 505

Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge, discourses, and literacy practices "count." Part I examines tensions between the local and the general in literacy development and use; Part II considers face-to-face interactions surrounding literacy practices in ethnically diverse classrooms; and Part III widens the ethnographic lens to position literacy practices in the context of globalization and contemporary education policies. Each section includes a substantive introduction by the editor and a synthetic commentary by a leading literacy researcher. Above all, this is a book oriented toward social action. Unpacking the complexity of literacy practices and experiences in diverse settings, the authors seek not only to build new knowledge, but to inform and transform the pedagogies and policies that limit human potentials. The chapters in this volume have much to teach us about the roots of inequality and the possibilities for positive change. Together, they highlight the urgent need for critical literacy researchers to engage politically, confronting education policies that deny the rich multiplicity of human literacies, thereby carving ever-deeper cleavages between those with and without access to literacies of power. The dual focus on language and literacy with critical-ethnographic accounts of identity and schooling speaks to a growing constituency of scholars and practitioners concerned with the role of literacy and discourse in alternatively affirming or negating knowledge, power, and identity, both within and outside of schools.

Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

1996-12-05
Literacy and Power in the Ancient World

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  • Author: Alan K. Bowman
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521587365
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 264

This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society.

Literacy and Literacies

2003-05-08
Literacy and Literacies

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  • Author: James Collins
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521596619
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

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Identity Papers

2006-09-30
Identity Papers

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  • Author: Bronwyn T Williams
  • Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

How do definitions of literacy in the academy, and the pedagogies that reinforce such definitions, influence and shape our identities as teachers, scholars, and students? The contributors gathered here reflect on those moments when the dominant cultural and institutional definitions of our identities conflict with our other identities, shaped by class, race, gender, sexual orientation, location, or other cultural factors. These writers explore the struggle, identify the sources of conflict, and discuss how they respond personally to such tensions in their scholarship, teaching, and administration. They also illustrate how writing helps them and their students compose alternative identities that may allow the connection of professional identities with internal desires and senses of self. They emphasize how identity comes into play in education and literacy and how institutional and cultural power is reinforced in the pedagogies and values of the writing classroom and writing profession.

The Power of Words

2011-11-01
The Power of Words

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  • Author: Glen Peterson
  • Publisher: UBC Press
  • ISBN: 0774842016
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

This book is a social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China from 1949 until 1994. It aims to show how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education and schools they were offered. Rather than focusing narrowly on educational issues alone, Peterson examines the larger significance of P.R.C. literacy efforts by situating the literacy movement within the broad context of major themes and issues in the social and political history of post-1949 China. Following the recent trend toward regional and local history, this book focuses on the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically awkward southeastern coastal province of Guangdong. As well, Peterson conducted interviews with local officials and teachers in several Guangdong counties in 1988 and 1989.

Doing Critical Literacy

2013-07-18
Doing Critical Literacy

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  • Author: Hilary Janks
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136310754
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 334

Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice, it brings critical literacy to life as a socio-cultural orientation to the teaching of literacy that takes seriously the relationship between language and power and orients readers to the social effects of texts. Students and teachers are drawn into the key questions critical readers need to pose of texts: Whose interests are served, who benefits, who is disadvantaged; who is included and who is excluded? The practical activities help readers grasp complex issues. Extending the theoretical framework in Hilary Janks’ Literacy and Power with a rich range of completely new, up-to-date activities that translate theory into practice, Doing Critical Literacy is powerful, relevant, and useful for both pre- and in-service teacher education and for use in schools.

Writing Science

2003-09-02
Writing Science

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  • Author: M.A.K. Halliday
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1135723052
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 325

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to educators involved with linguistics and/or science curriculum and teachers of English for special and academic purposes.; It is aimed at teachers of undergraduates in science and literacy, linguists teaching in English for special and academic purposes and students in higher education with an interest in science and literacy.

Literacy Is Power

2012-12
Literacy Is Power

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  • Author: Cassandra Lewis Slattery
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780988673311
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 154

Literacy Is Power is for everyone, beginners and experienced teachers, who want to take action against illiteracy. Literacy Is Power offers everything you need to start your own teen and adult literacy program or volunteer as a literacy instructor. If you can read this sentence you can become a literacy leader. - 50 activities in reading, writing, health, numeracy, and digital literacy - Seven Steps To A Successful Literacy Session - Conduct literacy triage and create a learner-centered curriculum - Fundraising leads and how to write grant proposals - A portion of the proceeds will be donated to fighting illiteracy and poverty "Literacy Is Power is an essential tool for everyone wanting to halt the devastation impacting families and children and parents in America. Reading is as important and vital as shelter and food and heat-it's a must read." -Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of A Glass of Water "Literacy is Power is an important book about a crucial issue for our democracy: how to eliminate the problem of illiteracy that affects well over a quarter of the American population and is a major contributor to its high poverty rate. This book offers a thoughtful, practical guide to those of us who are teaching or want to teach literacy, blending sound teaching methods and useful anecdotes with an admirable touch of passion. It is not only an excellent read; it is a must read. -Pablo Eisenberg, author of Challenges for Nonprofits and Philanthropy: The Courage to Change "Slattery's book is a fascinating read, full of stories and insights. Addressing our literacy culture, it sends a powerful message to society. And after reading, you will truly understand why education is about the learners and cherishing their voices." -Nikhil Goyal, the 17 year old author of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of School "Before I began Cassie's literacy program, I couldn't read this sentence. Now I am able to help my son with his homework." -E.C. "Cassie's literary strategy helped me improve my reading skills by two grade levels in only four months. I am now employed and eager to continue learning." -L.V.

The Powers of Literacy (RLE Edu I)

2014-06-17
The Powers of Literacy (RLE Edu I)

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  • Author: Bill Cope
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136515364
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 299

Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power. Drawing perspectives variously from critical social theory and cultural studies, poststructuralism and feminisms, sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication, social history and comparative education, the contributors begin a critical interrogation of taken-for-granted assumptions which have guided educational policy, research and practice.