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OverviewIn a number of classrooms recently, in Australia and elsewhere, English teachers have been redefining their teaching and inventing new ways of 'doing' it. This is no longer a matter of drilling students in grammatical skills, instructing them in turning out five-paragraph essays, responding appreciatively to novels, plays and poems or creating their own in a like manner. Instead, teachers are finding ways to help their students understand and act on critical literacy theories. According to these ideas, English in its forms and uses can never be a matter of neutral communication of factual knowledge. Critical literacy investigates how forms of knowledge, and the power they bring, are created in language and taken up by those who use such texts. It asks how language might be put to different, more equitable uses, and how texts might be recreated in a way that would tell a different story. This book is a carefully documented and critically analysed example of the growing emphasis on critical literacy in syllabuses, government reports and the like. This book: * bridges the gap between academics' theorizing and teachers' work * describes how secondary teachers have planned and implemented critical literacy curricula on a range of topics, from Shakespeare to the workplace * listens to teachers reflecting on their teaching and analyses classroom talk * extrapolates from present practice to a future critical literacy in a digitised, hypermedia world. Teachers and students of education, critical literacy advocates and theorists of literacy and schooling can learn much more from this book, which shows how critical literacy teachers, and their students, are contributing to the ongoing reinvention of English education as critical literacy. Wendy Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has taught secondary English for many years, and published several books on critical literacy education. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wendy MorganPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9780415142489ISBN 10: 0415142482 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 29 May 1997 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgements, 1 Mapping the terrain of critical literacy: language, society and schooling, 2 Reading curricula, 3 School writing and textual selves, 4 Between authority and freedom: teachers negotiating the discourses of English, 5 Classroom talk: business as usual, 6 ‘A Daniel come to judgement’, 7 Postmodern classrooms on the borders?, Coda, Bibliography, IndexReviews'Secondary school teachers, postgraduate students, and all those interested in critical literacy, will find this a useful text.' - The National Literacy Trust's 1997 International Annotated Bibliography of Books on Literacy. 'This is an intelligent and scholarly book ... the book's unique qualities will make it a valuable resource for any teacher wishing to pursue critical literacy perspectives in their own classroom.' - Educational Review 'Secondary school teachers, postgraduate students, and all those interested in critical literacy, will find this a useful text.' - The National Literacy Trust's 1997 International Annotated Bibliography of Books on Literacy. 'This is an intelligent and scholarly book ... the book's unique qualities will make it a valuable resource for any teacher wishing to pursue critical literacy perspectives in their own classroom.' - Educational Review Author InformationMorgan, Wendy Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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