Considering Literacy
Published on 28. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-321-11338-2 (ISBN)
Description
Showing the important connection between education and literacy, this collection of writing assignments and readings encourage readers to think about their experiences in college. Reading and Writing the College Experience offers a flexible, yet structured set of unique scaffolded writing assignments that will help students develop writing strategies. Each assignment contains a list of readings included in the book to be used in conjunction with the writing assignment. The result is that students have a greater understanding of the connection between education and literacy.
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Content
Introduction for Instructors
About This Book: Approaches and Assignments
"Reading: Words and Images"
"Getting" reading
Reading questions
Strategic reading
Reading images
Assignments
"Learning from Self" Assignments
Expectations and Experiences
Influencing Your Literacy Development
The Purposes of Schooling
Why Are You Here?
"Your" Campus
Your Literacy History and Its Significance
Your Literacy Development
"Learning from Others" Assignments
What's the Purpose of Education and Literacy
Literacy Practices and Schooling
Testing Definitions: Dominant and Vernacular Literacies
What Counts as "Learning" and for Whom?
How Is Literacy/Education Defined by You and by Others?
Community Literacies
"Learning Through Research" Assignments
Debating the Purpose of School
Representing the College Experience
Designing Assessments
What Counts, for What, and Who Says?
Analyzing Literacy Experiences
Positive Learning Experiences
What's Taught and Why
What Counts, for What, and Who Says?
Observing Literacy Practices
"Speaking Out, Joining In, Talk Back" Assignment
Readings About Uses of Learning:
David Barton and Mary Hamilton. "Literacy Practices"
bell hooks. "Engaged Pedagogy"
Paolo Freire. "The Banking Concept of Education"
Theodore Sizer. "What High School Is"
Readings About Learners:
David Barton and Mary Hamilton. "How They've Fared in Education: Harry's Literacy Practices"
Lorene Cary. From Black Ice.
Mark Edmundson. "On the Uses of a Liberal Education I: As lite entertainment for bored college students."
Andrea Fishman. "Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish"
June Jordan. "Don't Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan."
Robert Louthan. "Heavy Machinery"
Mike Rose. "I Just Wanna Be Average"
Michael Ryan, "The Ditch"
Earl Shorris. "On the Uses of a Liberal Education II: As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor."
Ron Suskind. "Fierce Intimacies"
Readings About Learning (in and out of school):
W.E.B. DuBois "On Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
Kate Daniels. "Self-Portrait with Politics."
Frederick Douglass. From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Darcy Frey. "The Last Shot."
Stanley Kaplan. "My 54-Year Love Affair with the SAT"
Nicholas Lemann. "The President's Big Test."
Teresa McCarty. "Classroom and Community"
Michael Moffatt. "What College Is REALLY Like"
Executive Summary of the "No Child Left Behind" Act.
"Wendy Darling". "What 'No Child Left Behind' Left Behind."
Gary Orfield and Johanna Wald. "Testing, Testing"
Peter Sacks. "Do No Harm: Stopping the Damage to American Schools"
James Traub. "The Test Mess"
Booker T. Washington "The Atlanta Exposition Address"
Photographs:
(list of photos to be added to Contents)
Credits
Index
About This Book: Approaches and Assignments
"Reading: Words and Images"
"Getting" reading
Reading questions
Strategic reading
Reading images
Assignments
"Learning from Self" Assignments
Expectations and Experiences
Influencing Your Literacy Development
The Purposes of Schooling
Why Are You Here?
"Your" Campus
Your Literacy History and Its Significance
Your Literacy Development
"Learning from Others" Assignments
What's the Purpose of Education and Literacy
Literacy Practices and Schooling
Testing Definitions: Dominant and Vernacular Literacies
What Counts as "Learning" and for Whom?
How Is Literacy/Education Defined by You and by Others?
Community Literacies
"Learning Through Research" Assignments
Debating the Purpose of School
Representing the College Experience
Designing Assessments
What Counts, for What, and Who Says?
Analyzing Literacy Experiences
Positive Learning Experiences
What's Taught and Why
What Counts, for What, and Who Says?
Observing Literacy Practices
"Speaking Out, Joining In, Talk Back" Assignment
Readings About Uses of Learning:
David Barton and Mary Hamilton. "Literacy Practices"
bell hooks. "Engaged Pedagogy"
Paolo Freire. "The Banking Concept of Education"
Theodore Sizer. "What High School Is"
Readings About Learners:
David Barton and Mary Hamilton. "How They've Fared in Education: Harry's Literacy Practices"
Lorene Cary. From Black Ice.
Mark Edmundson. "On the Uses of a Liberal Education I: As lite entertainment for bored college students."
Andrea Fishman. "Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish"
June Jordan. "Don't Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan."
Robert Louthan. "Heavy Machinery"
Mike Rose. "I Just Wanna Be Average"
Michael Ryan, "The Ditch"
Earl Shorris. "On the Uses of a Liberal Education II: As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor."
Ron Suskind. "Fierce Intimacies"
Readings About Learning (in and out of school):
W.E.B. DuBois "On Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
Kate Daniels. "Self-Portrait with Politics."
Frederick Douglass. From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Darcy Frey. "The Last Shot."
Stanley Kaplan. "My 54-Year Love Affair with the SAT"
Nicholas Lemann. "The President's Big Test."
Teresa McCarty. "Classroom and Community"
Michael Moffatt. "What College Is REALLY Like"
Executive Summary of the "No Child Left Behind" Act.
"Wendy Darling". "What 'No Child Left Behind' Left Behind."
Gary Orfield and Johanna Wald. "Testing, Testing"
Peter Sacks. "Do No Harm: Stopping the Damage to American Schools"
James Traub. "The Test Mess"
Booker T. Washington "The Atlanta Exposition Address"
Photographs:
(list of photos to be added to Contents)
Credits
Index