The Powers of Literacy (RLE Edu I)
A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2011
Book
Hardback
298 pages
978-0-415-69427-8 (ISBN)
Description
Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power. Drawing perspectives variously from critical social theory and cultural studies, poststructuralism and feminisms, sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication, social history and comparative education, the contributors begin a critical interrogation of taken-for-granted assumptions which have guided educational policy, research and practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-69427-8 (9780415694278)
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Content
Foreword. Introduction: How a Genre Approach to Literacy Can Transform the Way Writing is Taught. 1. Genre as Social Process. 2. Histories of Pedagogy, Cultures of Schooling 3. The Power of Literacy and the Literacy of Power. 4. Gender and Genre: Feminist Subversion of Genre Fiction and Its Implications for Critical Literacy 5. A Contextual Theory of Language. 6. Grammar: Making Meaning in Writing 7. Curriculum Genres: Planning for Effective Teaching. 8. Genre in Practice. 9. Assessment: A Foundation for Effective Learning in the School Context. Bibliographical Essay: Developing the Theory and Practice of Genre-based Literacy.