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Toward a literacy of promise : joining the African-American struggle / edited by Linda A. Spears-Bunton and Rebecca Powell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Language, culture, and teaching
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy--Social aspects--United States.
- Literacy.
- Literacy--Social aspects.
- African American students.
- United States.
- African American students--Education.
- Critical pedagogy--United States.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 208 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
- Summary:
- Toward a Literacy of Promise examines popular assumptions about literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used historically both to empower and to oppress. The authors offer an alternative view of literacy-a "literacy of promise"-that charts an emancipatory agenda for literacy instructional practices in schools. Weaving together critical perspectives on pedagogy, language, literature, and popular texts, each chapter provides an in-depth discussion that illuminates how a literacy of promise can be realized in schools and classrooms.
- Although the major focus is on African American middle and secondary students as a population that has experienced the consequences of inequality, the chapters demonstrate general and specific applications to other populations.
- Contents:
- Problems and promises
- Realizing a literacy of promise through literary texts
- Realizing a literacy of promise through oral and popular texts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415995183
- 9780415995184
- 0805845364
- 9780805845365
- OCLC:
- 225852424
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