Designing socially just learning communities
Subtitle: critical literacy education across the lifespan
By: Rebecca Rogers ... [et al.].
Contributors: Rogers, Rebecca.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780415997591; 9780415997621; 9780203881675
Subjects: Literacy; Social justice; Critical pedagogy
Description: Demonstrating the power and potential of educators working together to use literacy practices that make changes in people's lives, this collaboratively written book blends the voices of participants in a teacher-led professional development group to provide a truly lifespan perspective on designing critical literacy practices. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A framework for critical literacy across the lifespan : a case study of the literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group; title: Talking about war in a second grade classroom / Melissa Mosley; title: Writing our way to cultural understandings / Rebecca Light; title: Learning to listen : creating socially just curricula for middle and high school classrooms / Sarah Hobson; title: "No disrespect" : literature discussion as social action / Carolyn Fuller; title: Developing critical stances and multiple perspectives / Bridgette Jenkins ... [et al.]; title: Shared leadership, adolescent literacies, and social justice education in the "third space" / Melissa Mosley and Margaret Finders; title: Establishing a critical literacy lab in an adult education center / Mary Ann Kramer and Rhonda Jones; title: Center for human origins and cultural diversity : a catalyst for social justice and racial literacy / Jackie Lewis-Harris; title: Critical inquiry and analysis : making space for critical literacy / Carolyn Brown ... [et al.]; title: New teachers developing as educators/activists / Liesl Buechler and Kate Lofton; title: Working within and against heterosexist and homophobic schools : social justice and high school journalism / Janet DePasquale; title: Following the circles : organizing for justice through literacy education / Sarah Beaman-Jones; title: Response chapter : building relationships of struggle and solidarity / Angela Folkes ... [et al.]; title: Designing socially just learning spaces across the lifespan : what is and what might be.