Toward a Literacy of Promise : Joining the African American Struggle, Paperba...

Toward a Literacy of Promise : Joining the African American Struggle, Paperback by Spears-bunton, Linda A. (EDT); Powell, Rebecca (EDT), ISBN 0805845364, ISBN-13 9780805845365, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKSpears-Bunton (English education, Florida International U.), Powell (education, Georgetown College) and contributors examine popular assumptions about literacy and challenge readers to question how it has been used to discriminate and empower. They offer an alternate to common perceptions about literacy, in particular those that promise equality in literary and literacy instructional practices in schools. Working from new concepts based on social research about pedagogy, language, literature and popular texts, each provides an analysis of how different populations receive different types of instruction, covering such topics as literacy and literature education for adolescent African-American males, the educational benefits and detriments of the multicultural debate, the effects of gender and race in teaches and learners, the power of oral and popular texts, the for cultural voice in . schools, the potential of oral literacy for empowerment, social justice and the theater arts, and the special needs classroom. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()