Words in the wilderness : critical literacy in the borderlands / Stephen Gilbert Brown ; foreword by Gary A. Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Stephen Gilbert, 1949-

Series:

SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.

SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brown, Stephen Gilbert, 1949-.

Brown, Stephen Gilbert.

Athapascan Indians--Education--Alaska.

Athapascan Indians.

Critical pedagogy.

Literacy.

Teachers--Alaska--Biography.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher's experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska. Using the author's intensely personal, reflective, provocative account of his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska, Words in the Wilderness uniquely draws together individual experience and difficult abstract theory to make an educational, inspiring, and thought-provoking work. Stephen Gilbert Brown is Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of Tampa.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword by Gary A. Olson""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Of Words in the Wilderness""; ""1. How I Came to Be a Bush Teacher""; ""2. Calibans of the Contact Zone: Resistance and Marginality in the Borderlands""; ""3. The Bush Teacher As Cultural Imperialist""; ""4. Beyond the Contact Zone: Theorizing the Dialogic Classroom""; ""5. Adventures in Cultural Tourism: Foxfire and the Fetishization of the Authentic""; ""6. Decomposing the Canon: Alter/Native Narratives from the Borderlands""; ""7. Teaching the Cultural Conflicts: Toward a Literacy of Resistance""

""References""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-9334-2

0-585-30030-5

OCLC:

923396802