Title: Literacy with an attitude
Subtitle: educating working-class children in their own self-interest
Description: "This book is for teachers, parents, and community organizers who are on the side of working-class children. It's about the resistance of working-class children to the kind of education they typically receive, education designed to make them useful workers and obedient citizens. It's about working-class habits of communication and ways of using language that interface with schooling.

It's about a new brand of teachers, followers of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire who are developing effective methods for teaching powerful literacy in American working-class classrooms. It's about teacher networks where teachers devoted to equity and justice find mutual support. And it's about community organizers who are bringing working-class parents together around education issues and helping them mount effective demands for powerful literacy for their children."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Education, Working class, Language arts, Literacy, Organizations & Institutions, Working class, united states, Working class, education, Travailleurs, Éducation, Arts du langage
Places: United States