Reading Wide Awake Politics, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

Name: Reading Wide Awake Politics, Pedagogies, and Possibilities
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ISBN: 9780807752425

ISBN-10: 0807752428

ISBN-13: 9780807752425

Edition: 2011

Authors: Patrick Shannon

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In his new book, popular author Patrick Shannon examines reading as agency-why reading critically is essential to civic engagement and a healthy democracy. We follow the author on a journey of self discovery as he practices ''wide-awake reading'' with a variety of everyday texts, from radio programs to legal documents to more traditional books and magazines. Shannon demonstrates how we can and must engage in close reading of the world around us and how teachers, in turn, can help their students make meaning from the information in their lives that often appears to move at warp speed. Reading Wide Awake integrates personal stories, political commentary, and guidance for educators into an…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Publication date: 8/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

A former preschool and primary grades teacher, Patrick Shannon is currently a professor of education at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of nine books, including Reading Poverty (1998), text, lies, & video tape: stories about life, literacy, & learning (1995), Becoming Political: Readings and Writings in the Politics of Literacy Education (1992), and The Struggle to Continue: Progressive Reading Instruction in the United States (1990), all published by Heinemann.