Literacy as Praxis: Culture, Language, and Pedagogy / Edition 1

by Catherine Walsh

Overview

This book highlights the socio-political nature of literacy and illuminates the potential in literacy for the empowerment of individuals and communities subordinated by race/ethnicity, culture, language, gender, and class. It addresses the specific reality of literacy for both child and adult language minority populations; it argues that traditional discourses and approaches to literacy justify and maintain literacy deficits and poor school achievement and supports a divergent positioning of minorities and women within the social structure. The book proposes alternative discourses and approaches that draw from both whole language and critical pedagogy. Three major themes organize the volume: literacy, culture, and schooling; the development of language, reading, and writing; and pedagogy, empowerment, and social change. Through examples of child and adult learner-generated text, dialogues, and narratives, the chapters make clear the connection among literacy, knowledge, and power, the potentiality of agency and the transformative possibilities of pedagogy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893917173
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Literacy as Praxis: A Framework and an Introduction
LITERACY, CULTURE, AND SCHOOLING
Cultural Diversity and School Experience
Apprenticeship in Literacy
Responsibilities and Expectations: Interactive Home/School Factors in Literacy Development Among Portuguese First Graders
TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE, READING, AND WRITING
Creative Reading: A Relevant Methodology for Language Minority Children
Contexts for Literacy Development for ESL Children
Integrating Computerized Speech and Whole Language in the Early Elementary School
PEDAGOGY, EMPOWERMENT, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Community Literature in the Multi-Cultural Classroom: The Mothers' Reading Program
Teaching How to Read the World and Change It: Critical Pedagogy in the Intermediate Grades
Affirming Cultural Citizenship in the Puerto Rican Community: Critical Literacy and the El Barrio Popular Education Program
Author Index. Subject Index.