Kerryn Dixon

Literacy, Power, and the Schooled Body

Learning in Time and Space

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how children¿s bodies are trained in time and space to produce schooled, literate individuals. Moving from theory to practice, examples of real classroom events show how teachers¿ practices direct discipline onto children¿s bodies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415879637
• ISBN-10: 0415879639
• Artikelnr.: 29981949

Autorenporträt

Kerryn Dixon is a Lecturer in the Department of English and the Department of Applied English Language Studies, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Schooling the Body
2. Schooling and Space
3. Space and Time
4. Managing and Regulating Bodies
5. Reading Bodies
6. Writing Bodies
7. Assessing Bodies
8. Implications for Literacy Education
References
Index