The Insistence of the Letter
Literacy Studies and Curriculum Theorizing
Published in November 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-85000-919-1 (ISBN)
Description
These essays focus on the relationship between curriculum and literacy, and hence between literacy studies and curriculum theorizing. The informing thesis is that language, "writing" and the symbolic order are crucial considerations for understanding curriculum and schooling. This is explored via specific studies in curriculum politics and history, rhetoric, language and literacy education, media studies and educational linguistics. The book provides a forum for what are often two distinct enterprises: literary research and curriculum studies. It brings researchers together from Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in a common critical re-assessment of the curriculum-literacy nexus. It is aimed at BA / MEd lecturers and students of literacy studies and linguistics, curriculum studies, education researches and sociologists of education.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
forms transparencies
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85000-919-1 (9781850009191)
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Content
Literacy, orality, and the functions of curriculum, W.A. Reid; technologies of learning and alphabetic culture - the history of writing as the history of education, K. Hoskin; texts, literacy and schooling, D. Hamilton; lessons from the literacy before schooling 1800-1850, J. Willinsky; the "received tradition" of English teaching - the decline of rhetoric and the corruption of grammar, F. Christie; returning history - literacy, difference, and English teaching in the post-war period, T. Burgess; literacy and the limits of democracy, J. Donald; stories of social regulation - the micropolitics of classroom narrative, A. Luke; curriculum as literacy - reading and writing in "new times", C. Lankshear; television curriculum and popular literacy - feminine identity politics and family discourse, C. Luke; literacy studies and curriculum theorizing; or, the insistence of the letter, B. Green.