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Literacy and Empowerment The Meaning Makers

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Patrick L. Courts

Book Code: G261

ISBN: 0-89789-261-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-261-2

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216 pages

Bergin & Garvey Paperback

Publication: 10/30/1991

List Price: $27.95 (UK Sterling Price: £16.95)

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Media Type: Paperback

Also Available: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From
Peter McLaren

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership

Miami University
: This is an absolutely excellent book. . . . What is truly remarkable about [it] is that it not only recognizes that theory and practice are mutually informing and dialetically constituted, but that it works on the level of critical pedagogy. . . . I will use it myself with both graduates and undergraduates. I feel it is a book that is sorely needed.

Description: The first volume of the series "Language and Ideology," this work explores "mature" literacy. Patrick L. Courts argues that while by society's standards many people can read well, they are unable to create meaning from the world of oral and written language. His theory derives from psycho- and sociolinguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, literary criticism, and "whole language" theory. Courts criticizes programmed activities, texts, and workbooks--challenging the control that commercial textbook publishers and test-makers exert on education. He shuns overemphasis on methods and offers an alternative approach firmly grounded in theory and aimed at empowering teachers and students. Courts begins with a discussion of liberatory pedagogy, drawing from "whole language" theory, the social semiotics of Halliday, reader-response theory, and the ideas of Heidegger and Derrida. The subsequent methodological chapters build a case for what Courts calls a "conservative revolution" in literacy education: teachers combining a sound base of theory with methodologies to tap students' generative, creative powers. Courts's methodology aims to empower people as "meaning makers." This book is valuable to teachers and administrators, textbook publishers, and students of education.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Donaldo Macedo
Introduction
Language and Literacy
An Historical Perspective: or, How We Got from Here to There
Anxiety and Language in Society: or, Penetrating the Impenetrable
Readers and (as) Texts
Readers as Authors
Literacy beyond the English Class
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 91-2267

LCC Class: LB1576

Dewey Class: 302.2


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