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Listening up : reinventing ourselves as teachers and students / Rachel Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Rachel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy--Social aspects--United States.
- Literacy.
- Literacy--Social aspects.
- Poststructuralism.
- United States.
- Postmodernism and education--United States.
- Postmodernism and education.
- Psychoanalysis and education--United States.
- Psychoanalysis and education.
- Critical pedagogy--United States.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Poststructuralism--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 208 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Reinventing ourselves as teachers and students
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers-Heinemann, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book will change the way you view radical literacy education, offering a personal look at the Freirean ideas that guided Rachel Martin's early years of teaching, and the theories and classroom experiences that urged her to take a second look.
- Contents:
- Teaching in the Space Between Action and Reflection 1
- The Handbook That Refused to Be One 3
- A Focus on Teachers 5
- A New Look at Critical Pedagogy 6
- 2 From the Women's School to Neighbors Talk
- What We've Got Going for Us and What We're Up Against 11
- The Women's School 12
- Community College Teaching 12
- Community Writing and Publishing Programs 15
- The Working Conditions of Teaching 23
- What a Community Provides 23
- Teaching in Multicultural Classrooms 24
- My Role in the Production of Meaning 27
- Images of "the Illiterate" in Traditional and Radical Constructions of Literacy 29
- A Critique of Freire, and Dreams 37
- 3 Putting Theory into Action 40
- What's Missing from Critical Pedagogy 41
- The Usefulness of Poststructuralism 53
- Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious: One Way to Look at the Contradictions We Sustain and the Investments We Make 60
- Another Look at Freirian Pedagogy 65
- Poststructural and Psychoanalytic Thought: A Need for Caution? 66
- A Freire-Inspired Curriculum 68
- 4 Teaching Writing 77
- Process Writing 79
- What Is Writing? 83
- Strategies for Getting Writing Started 87
- Looking Underneath Technique 102
- Initial Response and Revision 103
- Another Look Underneath Technique 109
- Further Revision 115
- Editing 119
- Publication 121
- 5 Reading Your Way into Writing, Writing Your Way into Reading 129
- Reflections on Who We Are 129
- The Tensions That Rise from Change 136
- A Close Look at Techniques and Compromise 137
- Choosing Materials 138
- Simplified Texts and Complexity 139
- Reading Strategies: Taking Time to Linger 141
- About Vocabulary 148
- Reconsidering Learning Disabilities 149
- A Second Look at Reading Pedagogy 150
- 6 Creating Theme-Based Curricula
- More Strategies for Reading and Writing 154
- First Themes 155
- Collective Themes 160
- A Curriculum on Immigration: Redefining Multiculturalism, and a Move Toward Solidarity 165
- "The Nature of Classroom Discourse Changes When Inquiry Begins" 168
- Expanding Ideas and Questions: Strategies to Structure the Inquiry 170
- Reexamining Beliefs and Relationships: Additional Strategies 177
- Facilitating Rich Discussions 180
- A Postscript on The Power of a Group 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0867093870
- OCLC:
- 44727834
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