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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456531803321

Titolo

Towards a critical sociology of reading pedagogy [[electronic resource] ] : papers of the XII World Congress on Reading / / edited by Carolyn D. Baker and Allan Luke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 1991

ISBN

1-283-22230-2

9786613222305

90-272-8293-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser., 19

Altri autori (Persone)

BakerCarolyn D

LukeAllan

Disciplina

428.4

Soggetti

Reading - Social aspects

Books and reading - Sociological aspects

Books and reading - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Compiled in part from papers presented at a subsection of the XII World Congress on Reading held July 5, 1988 at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

TOWARDS A CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF READING PEDAGOGY PAPERS OF THE XII WORLD CONGRESS ON READING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of Contributors; Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: An Introduction; I. The Politics of Pedagogy; Chapter 1. The Political Economy of Reading Instruction; Chapter 2. Writing Pedagogy: Personal Voices, Truth Telling and'Real' Texts; Chapter 3. Learning the Literature Lesson: The Limits of the Aesthetic Personality; Chapter 4. Literacy: A Social Skill; II. Reading in Classrooms

Chapter 5. A Situated Perspective on What Counts as ReadingChapter 6. The Embeddedness of Reading In Classroom Life: Reading as a Situated Process; Chapter 7. Literacy Practices and Social Relations in Classroom Reading Events; III. Reconstructing Theory; Chapter 8. readings; Chapter 9. Reading 'readings': Towards a Postmodernist Reading



Pedagogy; IV. Reading the Social; Chapter 10. Remarks on Cognitive-Psychological and Critical-Sociological Accounts of Reading; Chapter 11. Discourses and Practices: A Postscript; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in Australia, Europe and North America, the volume offers novel critiques and theorisations from within political economy, neomarxist and critical theory, ethnomethodology, interactive sociolinguistics, poststructuralism and postmodernism. The volume is arranged in four sections; The Politics of Pedagog