
Literacies of Power
What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know With New Commentary by Shirley Steinberg, Joe Kincheloe, and Peter McLaren
Donaldo Macedo(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. August 2019
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-367-31670-9 (ISBN)
Description
Literacies of Power illustrates the many ways American schools, media, and other social institutions perpetuate ignorance. Donaldo Macedo shows why so-called common culture literacy is a form of dominant cultural reproduction that undermines independent thought and goes against the best interests of our students. Offering a wide-ranging
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31670-9 (9780367316709)
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Donaldo Macedo
Literacies of Power
What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know With New Commentary by Shirley Steinberg, Joe Kincheloe, and Peter McLaren
E-Book
03/2018
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Routledge
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Donaldo Macedo
Literacies of Power
What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know With New Commentary by Shirley Steinberg, Joe Kincheloe, and Peter McLaren
E-Book
03/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€64.49
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Donaldo Macedo
Literacies of Power
What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know With New Commentary by Shirley Steinberg, Joe Kincheloe, and Peter McLaren
Book
01/2006
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
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Person
Donaldo Macedo is Professor of English and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a leading authority in language studies and has published extensively in the areas of Creole languages, critical literacy, biligualism, and multiculturalism. His publications include Literacy: Reading the Word and the Word (with Paulo Freire, 1987), Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance (with Lilia Bartolome, 1999), Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (with Howard Zinn, 2005) and Globalization of Racism (edited with Panayota Gounari, 2005). He is a collaborator with Noam Chomsky on the recently published book, Chomsky On Miseducation. His published work has been translated into several languages.
Content
Introduction, 1 Literacy for Stupidification: The Pedagogy of Big Lies, 2 Our Common Culture: A Poisonous Pedagogy, 3 Our Uncommon Culture: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Language, 4 English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America, 5 Educational Reform: Literacy and Poverty Pimps, 6 Charitable Racism: Imposing Democracy Undemocratically