Reading wide awake
Subtitle: politics, pedagogies, and possibilities
By: Patrick Shannon ; foreword by Jeffery D. Wilhelm
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780807752425
Subjects: Books and reading; Reading; Democracy and education; Literacy
Description: "Patrick Shannon examines reading as agency--why reading critically is essential to civic engagement and a healthy democracy. We follow the author 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." --From back of book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What do I read?; title: How do texts work on me?; title: Do I control the meaning of texts?; title: Will I still read in the 21st century?; title: Are my readings dangerous?; title: Who reads like this?