Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition

Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest

von Patrick J Finn

332 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.Winner of the 2010 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association The classic, indispensable guide for teachers, parents, and community organizers concerned with educating working-class children, Literacy with an Attitude dares to define literacy as a powerful right of citizenship. Patrick J. Finn persuasively debunks the time-honored paradigm for teaching poor and working-class students. Our job, he argues, is not to help such students to become middle class and live middle-class lives-most don't want it. Education rather should focus on a powerful literacy-a literacy with an attitude-that enables working-class and poor students to better understand, demand, and protect their civil, political, and social rights.This tenth-anniversary, second edition features eight new chapters and a revised and updated original text.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften Theorie und Philosophie
• ISBN: 9781438428055
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.04.2009
• Größe: 231 x 157 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press