Meredith Rogers Cherland, Helen Harper

Advocacy Research in Literacy Education

Seeking Higher Ground

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Produktbeschreibung

As a whole, this book is a response to the current popular understandings of literacy education that limit the efficacy of advocacy work in these troubled times - understandings that support the proliferation of standardized testing, teacher testing, and scripted lessons and programs, along with the privileging of particular forms of research. Intended for those who work or soon will work in literacy education - students, teacher educators, researchers, and practitioners - this book represents the authors' belief that it is time for advocacy workers to strengthen and intensify their efforts to promote the most principled, effective literacy education for democratic life. It is their hope that this book will contribute to such an effort.

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This book reviews what the authors term advocacy research in literacy education-research that explicitly addresses issues of social justice, equity, and democracy with the distinct purpose of social transformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780805850567
• ISBN-10: 0805850562
• Artikelnr.: 21040217

Autorenporträt

Meredith Rogers Cherland, Helen Harper

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction: Advocacy, Research, and Education. Paulo
Freire and Critical Literacy(ies). Radical Counternarratives in Literacy
Research I: Feminist and Queer Theory. Radical Counternarratives in
Literacy Research II: Postcolonial Theory and Critical Race Theory.
Literacy as Social Practice. Linguistic Studies. Why Social Justice? Ethics
for Advocacy Research. The Literate Body. Literacy, Democracy, and Freedom.