Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix by Joanne Larson (English) Paperback

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This revised edition of Literacy as Snake Oil further investigates and critiques the commodification of literacy and education. Since the publication of the first edition, schools in the U.S. have been targeted even more as a market for private companies seeking to profit from the surveillance of NCLB (No Child Left Behind). Three chapters have been added: one that deals with the reproduction of racialized spaces during a textbook adoption, an analysis of America's Choice by a classroom teacher, and an analysis of the U.K.'s literacy strategy. This book will inspire teachers to remember their political commitments to resist oppression and unethical practice and find ways to subvert teacher- (and student-) proof packages.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

The Editor: Joanne Larson is Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum program at the University of Rochester's Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development. Her recent book, Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices in Learning and Teaching (2005), co-authored with Jackie Marsh, explores the breadth of the complex field of literacy studies, orientating literacy as a social practice grounded in social, cultural, historical, and political contexts.

Table of Contents

Contents: Joanne Larson: In Sheep's Clothing: Uncovering the Wolf - James Paul Gee: Reading and Language Development: Beyond Limited Perspectives - Gerald Coles: Forging Facts to Fit an Explanation: How to make Reading Research Support Skills-Emphasis Instruction - Patricia D. Irvine/Joanne Larson: Literacy Packages in Practice: Constructing Academic Disadvantage - Lynn Asterita Gatto: Success Guaranteed Literacy Programs: I Don't Buy It! - Patrick Shannon: Fattening Frogs for Snakes: Virtues for Sale - Kris D. Gutierrez: Sameness as Fairness: The New Tonic of Equality and Opportunity - Brian Street/Adam Lefstein/Kate Pahl: The National Literacy Strategy in England: Contradictions of Control and Creativity - Nancy Ares/Edward Buendia: Complex Literacy Landscapes: Veiled Meanings and Contested Identities - Dan Osborn: Digging Up the Family Tree: America's Forced Choice.

Review

This book is a cogent reminder of what we've known for the past eighty years but somehow keep managing to forget: that despite all the cyclical rhetoric about the one true method-science, pseudo-science, and evidence-based policy-literacy education is big business, with overt and obvious vested economic and corporate interests. (Allan Luke, Professor and Head, Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland)

Review Quote

This book is a cogent reminder of what we've known for the past eighty years but somehow keep managing to forget: that despite all the cyclical rhetoric about the one true method-science, pseudo-science, and evidence-based policy-literacy education is big business, with overt and obvious vested economic and corporate interests. (Allan Luke, Professor and Head, Graduate School of Education, University of Queensland)

Details ISBN0820495433 Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc Series New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies Year 2007 ISBN-10 0820495433 ISBN-13 9780820495439 Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc Subtitle Beyond the Quick Fix Country of Publication United States Edited by Joanne Larson DEWEY 372.60973 Birth 1956 Edition 2nd Format Paperback Affiliation University of Rochester, USA Pages 200 Replaces 9780820450216 Short Title LITERACY AS SNAKE OIL REV/E 2/ Language English Media Book Series Number 1 Publication Date 2007-06-29 DOI 10.1604/9780820495439 UK Release Date 2007-06-29 AU Release Date 2007-06-29 NZ Release Date 2007-06-29 US Release Date 2007-06-29 Author Joanne Larson Edition Description 2nd Revised edition Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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