Literacy matters
Subtitle: writing and reading the social self
By: Robert P. Yagelski ; foreword by Victor Villanueva
Series: Language and literacy series; Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780585378213
Subjects: Literacy; Language arts; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Victor Villanueva -- 1.; title: Abby's lament: Does literacy matter? -- -- 2.; title: Literacy in our lives: contradiction and possibility -- -- 3.; title: Literacy, discourse, and the postmodern subject: individuals and local acts of writing and reading -- -- 4.; title: Writing roles for ourselves: local literacies and students' lives -- -- 5.; title: Technology, subjectivity, and local literacies -- -- 6.; title: "A wider project of possibility and empowerment": teaching literacy as a local act --; title: Postscript: literacy and pedagogies of hope.