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The Lure of Literacy

Author : Michael Harker
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438454955

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Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses. The Lure of Literacy promises to transcend the stale and unproductive debate on freshman composition that has gripped English studies for more than a century. It is the first book to chart the origin of the discussion from the early twentieth century to the advent of the New Literacy Studies. Michael Harker recontextualizes proposals to abolish compulsory composition and reimagines pedagogical conditions in English studies in order to present a different model for first-year writing. This new model for compulsory composition programs focuses on students’ attitudes about composition and interrogates the very idea of literacy itself. “Harker clearly builds on current scholarship and brings his inquiries down to the very pragmatics of the classroom. In a field full of critiques, but little substance, his voice is refreshing in that what he has been arguing about is fully fleshed out in his lesson plans at the end.” — William H. Thelin, author of Writing without Formulas “The Lure of Literacy presents an incredibly accessible account of New Literacy Studies scholarship, which serves the book’s larger purpose (i.e., to propose a First-Year Literacy Studies curriculum) extremely well. Unlike a lot of books that rush through a discussion of an assignment or course that illustrates the pedagogical impact of the theory or historical research, this book presents a carefully thought-out course, complete with identifiable outcomes and lessons, that really does seem to have the potential to address the persistent misconceptions of literacy that fuel the abolition debate.” — Chris Warnick, College of Charleston

The Lure of Literacy

Author : Michael Harker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438454962

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Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses. “...readers of LiCS will find a strong argument for how understandings of literacy are fundamental to the work that compositionists do, making this book useful not only to those doing similar work but also to be shared with colleagues who have less familiarity with literacy studies. The Lure of Literacy presents a model of how theories of literacy can be applied to the debates that beset compositionists again and again, offering a way out of their unproductive cycles.” — Literacy in Composition The Lure of Literacy promises to transcend the stale and unproductive debate on freshman composition that has gripped English studies for more than a century. It is the first book to chart the origin of the discussion from the early twentieth century to the advent of the New Literacy Studies. Michael Harker recontextualizes proposals to abolish compulsory composition and reimagines pedagogical conditions in English studies in order to present a different model for first-year writing. This new model for compulsory composition programs focuses on students’ attitudes about composition and interrogates the very idea of literacy itself. Michael Harker is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University.

Critical Literacy

Author : Maxine Greene
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 079141230X

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Illustrates the differences and similarities between modernist and postmodernist theories of literacy, and suggests how the best elements of both can be fused to provide a more rigorous conception of literacy that will bring theoretical, ethical, political, and practical benefits. Some of the 14 essays are theoretical, other present case studies of literacy programs for adults and other applications. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Searching for Literacy

Author : Harvey J. Graff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030969813

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This book provides a critical account of the development of questions, approaches, methods, and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines. It provides a critique of literacy studies, including the New Literacy Studies. This book completes a series that the author began in the 1970s. It criticizes and revises the New Literacy Studies and how we think about literacy generally. It is a revisionist study which argues that literacy and literacy studies are historical developments and must be understood in those terms to comprehend their profound impact on our traditions of thinking about and understanding literacy, and how we study it. Graff argues that literacy studies in its academic, institutional, and policy forums, but also in popular parlance, has lost its critical foundations, and this hinders efforts to promote literacy. He examines literacy over time and across linguistics; anthropology; psychology; reading and writing across modes of communication and comprehension; “new” literacies across digital, visual, performance, numerical, and scientific domains; and history. He underscores the value of new directions of negotiation and translation. This book will interest scholars and students in the many fields that constitute literacy studies across the humanities, social sciences, education, and beyond.

Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons

Author : Harvey J. Graff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351508599

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In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many commonly held ideas about literacy. The book speaks to central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations.Drawing on other aspects of his research, Graff places the chapters that follow in the context of current thinking and major concerns about literacy, and the development of both historical and interdisciplinary studies. Special emphasis falls upon the usefulness of "the literacy myth" as an important subject for interdisciplinary study and understanding. Critical stock-taking of the field includes reflections on Graff's own research and writings of the last three decades, and the relationships that connect interdisciplinary rethinking and the literacy myth.The collection is noteworthy for its attention to Graff's reflections on his identification of "the literacy myth" and in developing LiteracyStudies@OSU (Ohio State University) as a model for university-wide interdisciplinary programs. It also deals with ordinary concerns about literacy, or illiteracy, that are shared by academics and concerned citizens. These nontechnical essays will speak to both academic and nonacademic audiences across disciplines and cultural orientations.

Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy

Author : William A. Covino
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791420841

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This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward, in order to construct a suggestive conceptual framework for disrupting our conventional notions about rhetoric and literacy. Offering an overarching, pointed synthesis of the interpenetration of magic, rhetoric, and literacy, William A. Covino draws from theorists ranging from Plato and Cornelius Agrippa to Paulo Freire and Mary Daly, and analyzes the different magics that operate in Renaissance occult philosophy and Romantic literature, as well as in popular indicators of mass literacy such as “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and The National Enquirer. Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy distinguishes two kinds of magic-rhetoric that continue to affect our psychological and cultural life today. Generative magic-rhetoric creates novel possibilities for action, within a broad sympathetic universe of signs and symbols. Arresting magic-rhetoric attempts to induce automatistic behavior, by inculcating rules and maxims that function like magic ritual formulas: JUST SAY NO. In this connection, the literate individual is one who can interrogate arresting language, and generate “counter-spells.”

The Way Literacy Lives

Author : Shannon Carter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791478745

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Working from the premise that literacy is a social process rather than an autonomous practice, The Way Literacy Lives offers a curricular response to the political, material, social, and ideological constraints placed on literacy education. Shannon Carter argues that fostering in students an awareness of the ways in which an autonomous model deconstructs itself when applied to real-life literacy contexts empowers them to work against this system in ways critical theorists advocate. She builds upon a theoretical framework provided by new literacy studies, activity theory, and critical literacies to construct a new model for basic writing instruction, one that trains writers to effectively read, understand, manipulate, and negotiate the cultural and linguistic codes of a new community of practice based on a relatively accurate assessment of another, more familiar one.

Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition

Author : Patrick J. Finn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438428048

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Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition by Patrick J. Finn Pdf

A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.

Valences of Interdisciplinarity

Author : Raphael Foshay
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781926836461

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Valences of Interdisciplinarity by Raphael Foshay Pdf

A collection of essays on interdisciplinary theory, research, and teaching.

Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy

Author : P. David Pearson,Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807773734

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Research-Based Practices for Teaching Common Core Literacy by P. David Pearson,Elfrieda H. Hiebert Pdf

This one-of-a-kind resource will be invaluable to every teacher educator, every curriculum director, and every literacy coach, whether or not they must meet Common Core Standards. Bringing together perspectives from literacy luminaries, each addressing their specialty, this book offers an accessible fund of rich practices in literacy instruction. The book serves two purposes: First, it assembles a body of knowledge and wisdom from leading literacy researchers who each draw from a long career in the field to address topics of central importance to good literacy instruction. Second, these research-to-practice leaders connect established best practices and foundational research to the current challenge of instruction to meet Common Core Standards and other rigorous curriculum guidelines. The contributors point out strengths of the Common Core as well as issues and oversights that educators should be aware of. Closing chapters situate the Common Core within a continuum of educational policy and legislation. Contributors: Richard L. Allington, Monica T. Billen, Jay S. Blanchard, Robert Calfee, Gina N. Cervetti, Michael F. Graves, John T. Guthrie, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, James V. Hoffman, Rosalind Horowitz, Michael L. Kamil, Barbara Kapinus, Richard Long, Leigh Ann Martin, Kimberly McCuiston, James Nageldinger, David Paige, P. David Pearson, Timothy Rasinski, S. Jay Samuels, Barbara Taylor, Joanna P. Williams, Kathleen Wilson “Pearson and Hiebert have long advocated for children in schools, and this volume is no exception. They and their chapter authors situate the CCSS within the historical and policy context in which it was written and support the literacy education community as we wrestle with the implications the standards have for research, for teachers, for teaching, and for learning.” —Sharon Walpole, University of Delaware “This book gets way beyond generalities and polemics about the Common Core, taking a deep and measured dive into a wide range of essential topics within the standards. I read a lot, and I can't think of the last time I read anything about the CCSS as engaging and thought provoking as this.” —Nell K. Duke, University of Michigan

Colonized Schooling Exposed

Author : Pierre Orelus,Curry Malott,Romina Pacheco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317605669

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This book presents a novel perspective on neocolonialism, education and other related issues. It unveils the effects of neocolonialism on the learning and well-being of students and workers, including marginalized groups such as Native Americans, Latino/as, and African Americans. It is a collection of in-depth interviews with and heartfelt essays by committed social justice educators and scholars genuinely concerned with educational issues situated in the context of western neocolonialism and neoliberalism.This dialogical way of discussing important issues and co-constructing knowledge can be traced back to ancient philosophers, who used dialogue as a form of inquiry to explore and analyze educational, socio-economic and political issues facing the world. It will cover many interwoven and pressing issues echoed through authentic voices of progressive educators and scholars.

Literacy in America [2 volumes]

Author : Barbara J. Guzzetti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781851094035

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Literacy in America [2 volumes] by Barbara J. Guzzetti Pdf

The definitive encyclopedic resource on literacy, literacy instruction, and literacy assessment in the United States. Once upon a time, the three "R"s sufficed. Not any more—not for students, not for Americans. Gone the way of the little red school house is simple reading and writing instruction. Surveying an increasingly complex discipline, Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive overview of all the latest trends in literacy education—conceptual understanding of texts, familiarity with electronic content, and the ability to create meaning from visual imagery and media messages. Educators and academicians call these skills "multiple literacies," shorthand for the kind of literacy skills and abilities needed in an age of information overload, media hype, and Internet connectedness. With its 400 A–Z entries, researched by experts and written in accessible prose, Literacy in America is the only reference tool students, teachers, and parents will need to understand what it means to be—and become—literate in 21st-century America.

Handbook of Reading Research

Author : P. David Pearson,Rebecca Barr,Michael L. Kamil,Peter Mosenthal,Elizabeth B. Moje,Peter Afflerbach,Patricia Enciso,Nonie K. Lesaux
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Reading
ISBN : 0805824162

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Handbook of Reading Research by P. David Pearson,Rebecca Barr,Michael L. Kamil,Peter Mosenthal,Elizabeth B. Moje,Peter Afflerbach,Patricia Enciso,Nonie K. Lesaux Pdf

"The Handbook of Reading Research is the research handbook for the field. Each volume has come to define the field for the period of time it covers ... When taken as a set, the four volumes provide a definitive history of reading research"--Back of cover, volume 4.

Handbook of Reading Research, Volume II

Author : Rebecca Barr,Michael L. Kamil,Peter B. Mosenthal,P David Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351796736

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Handbook of Reading Research, Volume II by Rebecca Barr,Michael L. Kamil,Peter B. Mosenthal,P David Pearson Pdf

A comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues in the field of reading research from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s, this well-received volume offers readers an examination of literacy through a variety of lenses--some permitting microscopic views and others panoramic views. A veritable "who's who" of specialists in the field, chapter authors cover current methodology, as well as cumulative research-based knowledge. Because it deals with society and literacy, the first section provides the broadest possible view of literacy. The second section defines the range of activities culturally determined to be a part of the enterprise known as literacy. The third focuses on the processes that individuals engage in when they perform the act of reading. The fourth section visits the environment in which the knowledge that comprises literacy is passed on from one generation to the next. The last section, an epilogue to the whole enterprise of reading research, provides apt philosophical reflection.

Literacy and Libraries

Author : GraceAnne DeCandido
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838935168

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Literacy and Libraries by GraceAnne DeCandido Pdf

The Social Responsibilities Discussion Group of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) presents "Literacy in Libraries," a paper authored by Josephine Anderson. Anderson discusses the formation of the new IFLA Social Responsibilities Discussion Group, which has as its mission to help libraries address the problem of illiteracy among adults. Anderson discusses illiteracy in South Africa, and stresses the importance of phonics in reading. According to Anderson, libraries can become active with literacy programs without jeopardizing their traditional functions. A listing of references is available.