At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response.
"Harvard Educational Review"
Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. "Times Educational Supplement"
This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning. "Contemporary...
At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the closed minds' of American yout...
Applying theory to practice, "Women Teaching for Change" reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which the forces of sexism, racism, and classism, which so characterize society as a whole, are played out in multiracial, multicultural classrooms. A fine book, a rich melding of critical theory in education, feminist literature, and pedagogical experience and expertise. "Maxine Green, Columbia University"
Applying theory to practice, "Women Teaching for Change" reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which...
Applying theory to practice, "Women Teaching for Change" reveals the complexity of being a feminist teacher in a public school setting, in which th...
a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school personnel have a positive and dynamic political role to play.
"Educational Leadership"
We are fortunate to have these ideas expressed so clearly and in one place. It is a very useful book. . . .
"Choice"
Offers educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the...
a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps...
a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school personnel have a positive and dynamic political role to play.
"Educational Leadership"
We are fortunate to have these ideas expressed so clearly and in one place. It is a very useful book. . . .
"Choice"
Offers educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the...
a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps...
How often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into account? Not very often, according to this incisive study which deals with the struggles that these students confront in U.S. schools. As active participants in the shifting balances of power, in the dialectic of language, and in the battle over whose knowledge, experience, and voice are recognized and accepted, Puerto Rican students are uniquely aware of the language and power relation. Their efforts at trying to make sense out of and fashion a voice from the multiple and often contradictory...
How often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into account? Not very often, according to this incisive st...
How often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into account? Not very often, according to this incisive study which deals with the struggles that these students confront in U.S. schools. As active participants in the shifting balances of power, in the dialectic of language, and in the battle over whose knowledge, experience, and voice are recognized and accepted, Puerto Rican students are uniquely aware of the language and power relation. Their efforts at trying to make sense out of and fashion a voice from the multiple and often contradictory...
How often are the perspectives of Puerto Rican students recognized, listened to, and taken into account? Not very often, according to this incisive...
This volume of radical studies in the sociology and politics of education specifically addresses educational policies and the crisis of the welfare state--one of the central political facts of our time--and opens up new areas in the critical social analysis of education. Shapiro explores the interconnection between educational policy and the structure of economic, political, and cultural life in the United States, arguing that in spite of its practical and ideological autonomy, the educational region is not immune to the kinds of disruption and dislocation found elsewhere in society....
This volume of radical studies in the sociology and politics of education specifically addresses educational policies and the crisis of the welfare...
Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, "Popular Culture" is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture.
Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, "Popular Culture" is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular c...
Edmund Sullivan describes the working of his book as an elaboration of its title "Critical Psychology and Pedagogy: Interpretation of the Personal World." Sullivan thoroughly develops his meaning of critical psychology and demonstrates its relationship to the personal world. His bottom line: psychology is extraordinarily relevant to the current working of society, playing an important role in the organization and maintenance of its institutions. Developing this critical pedagogy for the interpretation of the personal world, Sullivan completes his work with concrete examples of how critical...
Edmund Sullivan describes the working of his book as an elaboration of its title "Critical Psychology and Pedagogy: Interpretation of the Personal ...
Rewriting Literacy makes a profound contribution to the developing field of literacy studies as it is the first book which seeks to link such disciplines as linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, education, English as a second language, and reading and writing theory.
The chapters in this edited collection, by some of the foremost scholars of the day, all focus on the nature of literacy. Each article brings to light important concerns regarding literacy, concerns which are often ignored by the more traditionally oriented educationalist. The authors illustrate how literacy is...
Rewriting Literacy makes a profound contribution to the developing field of literacy studies as it is the first book which seeks to link such disci...