Now We Read, We See, We Speak Portrait of Literacy Development in an Adult Freirean-Based Class

Name: Now We Read, We See, We Speak Portrait of Literacy Development in an Adult Freirean-Based Class
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ISBN: 9780805834703

ISBN-10: 0805834702

ISBN-13: 9780805834703

Edition: 2000

Authors: Victoria Purcell-Gates, Robin A. Waterman

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Now We Read, We See, We Speakcompellingly captures eight women's progress toward empowerment through a Freirean-based literacy class in rural El Salvador and, in the process, provides telling lessons for literacy and adult educators around the world. This book fills a real gap in the educational literature on critical theory and literacy teaching and learning. For the first time, we have a multi-layered description and analysis of a literacy class based on Freirean precepts and principles, through the perspective of "traditional" literacy theory and as interpreted through a literacy development lens. This allows us to consider how the adult students learned to read and write within a…

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Victoria Purcell-Gates is Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood Literacy at the University of British Columbia.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Contexts



Adult Literacy and Paulo Freire: A Lens for Hope


Endnotes



Revolutionary Struggle and Literacy: Historical Context


Endnotes



A Literacy Class Takes Shape: Eight Women's Literacy Histories and Motivations


Endnotes



The Literacy Class



The Literacy Class: Engaoing With Social Reality and Print to Effect Change


Endnotes



Learning Through Dialogue: Reading and Writing the World


Endnotes



The Language of the People: Issues of Language and Power


Endnotes



Dialogic Practice: The Teacher as Student and the Student as Teacher


Endnotes



ï¿½Qui ï¿½en fui, Qui ï¿½n soy, Qui ï¿½n puedo ser? Who Was I, Who Am I, Who Can I Be?


Endnotes



Insights For Adult Literacy Education



Literacy Development and Freirean-Based Pedagogy


Endnotes



Researchers' Histories and Stances



Methodology


Endnote


References


Author Index


Subject Index