Literacy as Snake Oil
Beyond the Quick Fix
2nd Edition
Published on 29. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8204-9543-9 (ISBN)
Description
This revised edition of Literacy as Snake Oil further investigates and critiques the commodification of literacy and education. Since the publication of the first edition, schools in the U.S. have been targeted even more as a market for private companies seeking to profit from the surveillance of NCLB (No Child Left Behind). Three chapters have been added: one that deals with the reproduction of racialized spaces during a textbook adoption, an analysis of America's Choice by a classroom teacher, and an analysis of the U.K.'s literacy strategy. This book will inspire teachers to remember their political commitments to resist oppression and unethical practice and find ways to subvert teacher- (and student-) proof packages.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
305 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-9543-9 (9780820495439)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
12/2001
Peter Lang Verlag
€20.70
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Person
The Editor: Joanne Larson is Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum program at the University of Rochester's Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Her recent book, Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices in Learning and Teaching (2005), co-authored with Jackie Marsh, explores the breadth of the complex field of literacy studies, orientating literacy as a social practice grounded in social, cultural, historical, and political contexts.
Content
Contents: Joanne Larson: In Sheep's Clothing: Uncovering the Wolf - James Paul Gee: Reading and Language Development: Beyond Limited Perspectives - Gerald Coles: Forging «Facts» to Fit an Explanation: How to make Reading Research Support Skills-Emphasis Instruction - Patricia D. Irvine/Joanne Larson: Literacy Packages in Practice: Constructing Academic Disadvantage - Lynn Asterita Gatto: Success Guaranteed Literacy Programs: I Don't Buy It! - Patrick Shannon: Fattening Frogs for Snakes: Virtues for Sale - Kris D. Gutiérrez: «Sameness as Fairness»: The New Tonic of Equality and Opportunity - Brian Street/Adam Lefstein/Kate Pahl: The National Literacy Strategy in England: Contradictions of Control and Creativity - Nancy Ares/Edward Buendía: Complex Literacy Landscapes: Veiled Meanings and Contested Identities - Dan Osborn: Digging Up the Family Tree: America's Forced Choice.