Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest

Finn, Patrick J.

ISBN 10: 0791442853 / ISBN 13: 9780791442852

Editore: SUNY Press, 1999

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• Titolo: Literacy with an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest
• Editore: SUNY Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791442853
• ISBN 13: 9780791442852
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Honorable Mention, 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards

This book is for teachers, parents, and community organizers who are on the side of working-class children. It's about the resistance of working class children to the kind of education they typically receive, education designed to make them useful workers and obedient citizens. It's about working-class habits of communication and ways of using language that interfere with schooling. It's about a new brand of teachers, followers of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire who are developing effective methods for teaching powerful literacy in American working-class classrooms. It's about teacher networks where teachers devoted to equity and justice find mutual support. And it's about community organizers who are bringing working-class parents together around education issues and helping them mount effective demands for powerful literacy for their children.

Informazioni sull?autore

Patrick J. Finn is Associate Professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction at State University of New York at Buffalo. His previous books include Helping Children Learn to Read; Helping Children Learn to Read, Second Edition; and Helping Children Learn Language Arts.