Literacy with an attitude : educating working-class children in their own self-interest / Patrick J. Finn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finn, Patrick J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts--United States.

Language arts.

Literacy--United States.

Literacy.

Working class--Education--United States.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

State University of New York (SUNY) Press 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.

Contents:

Intro

Literacy with an Attitude

Contents

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

1. TITLE, AUTHOR, AND HARD-BITTEN SCHOOLTEACHERS

2. A DISTINCTLY 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. SCHOOLS AND A SQUARE DEAL FOR WORKING PEOPLE

14. CITIZENS' RIGHTS VS. SOCIAL CLASSAND A FREE-MARKET ECONOMY: Acknowledging Conflict and Seeking Equity

15. TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HEIRS TO THECORRESPONDING SOCIETIES AND A NEW PARADIGM FOREDUCATING WORKING-CLASS STUDENTS

16. TEACHERS WHO AGITATE: Freirean Motivation in the Classroom

17. AGITATING STUDENTS AND STUDENTS WHO AGITATE

18. AGITATING PARENTS AND PARENTS WHO AGITATE

19. SCALING AGITATION UPWARD

20. IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND A FEW LINES FROM LES MISERABLES

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438428048

1438428049

9781441612021

1441612025

OCLC:

404046482