This critical ethnography of school libraries contributes to the study of the politics of literacy at the elementary school level as well as provides an interesting case study of border crossing. The book interrogates two accounts of social reproduction and proposes a third. Students at working-poor Chavez Elementary resisted attempts to get them hooked on reading fiction, but while many were socialized to the labor of a piecework economy, many also found ways to use texts as they chose. At professional-managerial Crest Hills, students managed their discourse practices in ways that...
This critical ethnography of school libraries contributes to the study of the politics of literacy at the elementary school level as well as provid...
The book presents multiple approaches to teaching poetry at the middle and early high school levels that aim to 1) engage students in performative acts of poetry writing and analysis; 2) introduce students to the basic formal elements of contemporary and
The book presents multiple approaches to teaching poetry at the middle and early high school levels that aim to 1) engage students in performative act...
