Literacy with an Attitude Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest

Name: Literacy with an Attitude Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest
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ISBN: 9780791442869

ISBN-10: 0791442861

ISBN-13: 9780791442869

Edition: 1999

Authors: Patrick J. Finn

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Written for those who care about working-class children, this title is about working class habits of communication and ways of using language that interfere with conventional schooling methods.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 8/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Title, Author, and Hard-Bitten Schoolteachers



A Distinctively Un-American Idea: An Education Appropriate to Their Station



Harsh Schools, Big Boys, and the Progressive Solution



Oppositional Identity: Identifying "Us" as "Not Them"



The Lads



Changing Conditions--Entrenched Schools



Class, Control, Language, and Literacy



Where Literacy "Emerges"



Where Children Are Taught to Sit Still and Listen



The Last Straw: There's Literacy, and Then There's Literacy



Literacy with an Attitude



Not Quite Making Literacy Dangerous Again



Making Literacy Dangerous Again



Taking Sides



Mad as Hell, and Not Going to Take It Any More


Notes


References


Index