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Rewriting literacy : culture and the discourse of the other

Author: Candace Mitchell; Kathleen Weiler
Publisher: New York : Bergin & Garvey, 1991.
Series: Critical studies in education and culture series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Rewriting literacy.
New York : Bergin & Garvey, 1991
(OCoLC)551631250
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Candace Mitchell; Kathleen Weiler
ISBN: 0897892259 9780897892254 0897892283 9780897892285
OCLC Number: 23655340
Description: xxx, 281 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: What is literacy? / James Paul Gee --
Discourses of power, the dialectics of understanding, the power of literacy / Adrian T. Bennett --
The struggle for voice : narrative, literacy, and consciousness in an East Harlem school / Michéle Solá and Adrian T. Bennett --
"Gimme room" : school resistance, attitude, and access to literacy / Perry Gilmore --
The narrativization of experience in the oral style / James Paul Gee --
Hearing the connections in children's oral and written discourse / Sarah Michaels --
Discourse systems and aspirin bottles : on literacy / James Paul Gee --
The importance of the act of reading / Paulo Freire --
The politics of an emancipatory literacy in Cape Verde / Donaldo Macedo --
Tropics of literacy / Linda Brodkey. The construction of school knowledge : a case study / Jan Nespor --
Benjamin's story / Jonathan Kozol --
Petra : learning to read at 45 / Pat Rigg --
How illiteracy became a problem (and literacy stopped being one) / James Donald --
Hegemonic practice : literacy and standard language in public education / James Collins --
Popular literacy and the roots of the new writing / John Willinksky.
Series Title: Critical studies in education and culture series.
Responsibility: edited by Candace Mitchell and Kathleen Weiler.

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