Critical Literacy: Politics, Praxis, and the Postmodern (Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform)

ISBN: 079141230X

Author: Lankshear, Colin

Condition: New

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Critical literacy as political intervention: Three variations on a themeKevin Harris2 Informing critical literacy with ethnographyGary L. Anderson and Patricia Irvine3 Critical literacy and the politics of genderBarbara Bee4 The challenge of popular education in the Grenada revolutionDidacus Jules5 Words to a life-land: Literacy, the imagination, and PalestineCHRIS SEARLE6 Between moral regulation and democracy: The cultural contradictions of the textMichael W. Apple7 Literacy and urban school reform: Beyond vulgar pragmatismDennis Carlson8 Literacy, pedagogy, and English studies: Postmodern connectionsJames A. Berlin9 Postmodernism and literaciesJames Paul Gee10 Reading and writing the media: Critical media literacy and postmodernismDavid Sholle and Stan Denski11 Feminist literacies: Toward emancipatory possibilities of solidarityJeanne Brady and Adriana Hernandez12 (Dis)connecting literacy and sexuality: Speaking the unspeakable in the classroomKathleen Rockhill13 Literacy and the politics of differenceHenry Giroux14 Critical literacy and the postmodern turnPeter L. McLaren and Colin LankshearPostscript to "Critical literacy and the postmodern turn"ContributorsAuthor IndexSubject Index