Just literacy
Subtitle: promoting justice through language and learning
By: edited by John Harmon.
Contributors: Harmon, John.; New York State English Council.
Series: New York State English Council monographs
Publisher: New York State English Council
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Albany]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Critical pedagogy -- United States.; Social justice -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Language arts.; Justice in literature.; Multicultural education -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Literacy and social responsibility : democratic principles in a differentiated classroom; title: Facing teacher fears about lesbian and gay texts in the classroom; title: The constructivist classroom : an antidote to indifference; title: Re-viewing multicultural sites : an inquiry of transcultural betweenness; title: Promoting social justice in the young adult literature class : preparing pre-service teachers to choose multicultural texts; title: Reflections on language, gender, class and power relations with suggestions for instructional applications; title: Writers from the war zone : poets and the literature of the Northern Ireland troubles; title: Meet the authors.