The 28 essays reprinted here are arranged in four sections that offer theoretical, historical, educational, and community perspectives on the whole topic of literacy. In addition to their substantial introduction, the editors provide an exhaustive bibliography based on the citations to the essays.
Kintgen, Kroll, and Rose see literacy as an extremely complex area of inquiry in which all aspects are interrelated, and they hope to avoid creating or perpetuating false boundaries within the field.
The book s first section contains articles dealing with various psychological and economic...
The 28 essays reprinted here are arranged in four sections that offer theoretical, historical, educational, and community perspectives on the whole...
Based on five years of classroom experimentation, "The Open Hand" presents a highly practical yet transformational philosophy of teaching argumentative writing. In his course Arguing as an Art of Peace, Barry Kroll uses the open hand to represent an alternative approach to argument, asking students to argue in a way that promotes harmony rather than divisiveness and avoiding conventional conflict-based approaches.
Kroll cultivates a bodily investigation of noncombative argument, offering direct pedagogical strategies anchored in three modalities of learning conceptual-procedural,...
Based on five years of classroom experimentation, "The Open Hand" presents a highly practical yet transformational philosophy of teaching argumentativ...
