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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813579303321

Autore

Morgan Wendy <1944-, >

Titolo

Critical literacy in the classroom : the art of the possible / / Wendy Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-76576-2

1-280-33124-0

1-134-76577-0

0-203-28248-5

0-203-03432-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)

Disciplina

428/.0071/2

Soggetti

Language arts (Secondary) - Australia

Critical pedagogy - Australia

Discourse analysis - Australia

Theory & Practice of Education

Education

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Mapping the terrain of critical literacy -- Language, society and schooling -- chapter 2 Reading curricula -- chapter 3 School writing and textual selves -- chapter 4 Between authority and freedom -- Teachers negotiating the discourses of English -- chapter 5 Classroom talk -- Business as usual -- chapter 6 ‘A Daniel come to judgement’ -- chapter 7 POSTMODERN CLASSROOMS ON THE BORDERS?.

Sommario/riassunto

Critical literacy investigates how forms of knowledge, and the power they bring, are created in language and taken up by those who use texts. It asks how language might be put to different, more equitable uses, and how texts might be recreated in a way that would tell a different story. This book is a carefully documented and critically analysed example of the growing emphasis on critical literacy in



syllabuses, government reports and the like. It: * bridges the gap between academics' theorizing and teachers' work * describes how secondary teachers have planned and implemented critical literacy curricula on a range of topics, from Shakespeare to the workplace * listens to teachers reflecting on their teaching and analyses classroom talk * extrapolates from present practice to a future critical literacy in a digitised, hypermedia world. Teachers and students of education, critical literacy advocates and theorists of literacy and schooling can learn much more from this book, which shows how critical literacy teachers, and their students are contributing to the ongoing reinvention of English education as critical literacy.