| Description |
xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Title, Author, and Hard-Bitten Schoolteachers -- 2. A Distinctively Un-American Idea: An Education Appropriate to Their Station -- 3. Harsh Schools, Big Boys, and the Progressive Solution -- 4. Oppositional Identity: Identifying "Us" as "Not Them" -- 5. The Lads -- 6. Changing Conditions - Entrenched Schools -- 7. Class, Control, Language, and Literacy -- 8. Where Literacy "Emerges" -- 9. Where Children Are Taught to Sit Still and Listen -- 10. The Last Straw: There's Literacy, and Then There's Literacy -- 11. Literacy with an Attitude -- 12. Not Quite Making Literacy Dangerous Again -- 13. Making Literacy Dangerous Again -- 14. Taking Sides -- 15. Mad as Hell, and Not Going to Take It Any More |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index |
| Subject |
Working class -- Education -- United States.
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Literacy -- United States.
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Language arts -- United States.
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| LC no. |
99026086 99026086 |
| ISBN |
0791442853 alkaline paper |
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0791442861 paperback alkaline paper |
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