Literacy, leading and learning : beyond pedagogies of poverty / Debra Hayes, Robert Hattam, Barbara Comber, Lyn Kerkham, Ruth Lupton and Pat Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Debra N. A., 1960- author.

Series:

Local/global issues in education

Local/Global Issues in Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Australia--Adelaide (S.A.).

Literacy.

Children with social disabilities--Education (Primary).

Language arts (Primary).

Reading (Primary).

Australia.

Reading (Primary)--Australia--Adelaide (S.A.).

Language arts (Primary)--Australia--Adelaide (S.A.).

Children with social disabilities--Education (Primary)--Australia--Adelaide (S.A.).

Children with social disabilities.

Academic achievement--Australia--Adelaide (S.A.).

Academic achievement.

South Australia--Adelaide.

Physical Description:

xvi, 212 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

How might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of this book. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practiced and those practices that have a greater chance of supporting young people's literacy learning. In this multilayered analysis of the effects of policy on practice, the authors: discuss global concerns with literacy policy and testing in view of the growing gaps between rich and poor; examine the effects of the intensification of inequality and entrenched poverty, and the implications for schools; illustrate how deficit discourses pertaining to communities living in poverty are contested in schools; and describe the complexities of sustaining pedagogical and curriculum change to address the problem of unequal educational outcomes in literacy. This book grapples with some of the most debated questions regarding educational disadvantage, school change, leadership and literacy pedagogy that face educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners internationally. As well as providing a critique of the risks of current policy rationales, it conveys some hopeful accounts of practice that provide leads for further development. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Poverty now 18

2 Studying schools 42

3 Educational leadership practices: Making and remaking the school 65

4 Uncommon pedagogies 91

5 Common pedagogies: Missed opportunities and unmet hopes 119

6 Supporting children's literacy learning at school and home: Analysing the effects of discourse 142

7 'We can make a difference': Educational leadership practices for literacy learning 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138893436

1138893439

9781138893559

1138893552

OCLC:

975368913