Literacy on the left : reform and revolution / Andrew Lambirth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambirth, Andrew, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideology.

Literacy--Political aspects.

Literacy.

Right and left (Political science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This engaging text explores discourses involved in the teaching of literacy which can be conceptualised as deriving from the political 'left'. The concept of a 'left' and a 'right' in politics are fully defined and a unique analytical framework is introduced to examine and categorise perspectives for teaching literacy. The book creates a language of critique for methods advocated from liberal, 'left-leaning' sources within the field of education and connects them to left political agendas that aspire to either reform or revolution to change and improve society. These left approaches are then contrasted with politically 'right' agendas. Methods for the teaching of literacy have for many years been seen to be politically motivated by commentators on the left and the right of politics. This book considers the ideological sources of educational practice in literacy. Methods advocated from more liberal perspective are rarely critiqued and examined for their ideological and political roots

Contents:

Introduction

Marxism: a revolutionary perspective

Conservatives and social democratic liberal perspectives

Postmodernist perspectives

Fashioning a language of critique

Conservative discourse and literacy practice

Social democratic liberal discourse and literacy practice

Radical discourse and literacy practice

Marxist discourse and literacy practice

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-176) and index.

ISBN:

9786613066718

9781472553089

147255308X

9781283066716

1283066718

9781441155474

1441155473

OCLC:

713533101