| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 311 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Title, Author, and Hard-Bitten Schoolteachers -- 2. Distinctly Un-American Idea: An Education Appropriate to Their Station -- 3. Harsh Schools, Big Boys, and the Progressive Solution -- 4. Oppositional Identity: Identifying "Us" as "Not Them" -- 5. Lads -- 6. Changing Conditions -- Entrenched Schools -- 7. Class, Control, Language, and Literacy -- 8. Where Literacy "Emerges" -- 9. Where Children Are Taught to Sit Still and Listen -- 10. Last Straw: There's Literacy, and Then There's Literacy -- 11. Literacy with an Attitude -- 12. Not Quite Making Literacy Dangerous Again -- 13. Schools and a Square Deal for Working People -- 14. Citizens' Rights vs. Social Class and a Free-Market Economy: Acknowledging Conflict and Seeking Equity -- 15. Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Heirs to the Corresponding Societies and a New Paradigm for Educating Working-Class Students -- 16. Teachers Who Agitate: Freirean Motivation in the Classroom -- 17. Agitating Students and Students Who Agitate -- 18. Agitating Parents and Parents Who Agitate -- 19. Scaling Agitation Upward -- 20. Important Concepts and a Few Lines from Les Miserables |
| Summary |
Annotation The classic, indispensable guide for teachers, parents, and community organizers concerned with educating working-class children, Literacy with an Attitude dares to define literacy as a powerful right of citizenship. Patrick J. Finn persuasively debunks the time-honored paradigm for teaching poor and working-class students. Our job, he argues, is not to help such students to become middle class and live middle-class lives-most don't want it. Education rather should focus on a powerful literacy-a literacy with an attitude-that enables working-class and poor students to better understand, demand, and protect their civil, political, and social rights |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Working class -- Education -- United States
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Literacy -- United States
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Language arts -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
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Language arts
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Literacy
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Working class -- Education
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441612021 |
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1441612025 |
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1438428057 |
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9781438428055 |
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1438428065 |
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9781438428062 |
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