Paulo Freire, Donaldo P. Macedo

Literacy

Reading the Word and the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response. Harvard Educational Review Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. Times Educational Supplement [This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning. Contemporary Sociology

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1950
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780897891264
• ISBN-10: 0897891260
• Artikelnr.: 21037368

Autorenporträt

eire /f Paulo /i edo /f Donaldo /i

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Literacy and the Pedagogy of Political Empowerment, Henry A.Giroux
Chapter 1 The Importance of the Act of Reading
Chapter 2 Adult Literacy and Popular Libraries
Chapter 3 Rethinking Literacy: A Dialogue
Chapter 4 The People Speak Their Word: Literacy in Action
Chapter 5 Literacy in Guinea-Bissau Revisited
Chapter 6 The Illiteracy of Literacy in the United States
Chapter 7 Literacy and Critical Pedagogy