Literacies Of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed To Know - Couverture rigide

Macedo, Donaldo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813322529 ISBN 13 : 9780813322520

Editeur : Westview Press, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Macedo Donaldo

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Challenging conservatives like Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch, Macedo shows why so-called common culture literacy is a form of dominant cultural reproduction that undermines independent thought and goes against the best interests of our students. Offering a wide-ranging counterargument, Macedo shows why cultural literacy cannot be restricted to the acquisition of Western heritage values, which sustain an ideology that systematically negates the cultural experiences of many members of society—not only minorities but also anyone who is poor or disenfranchised. Macedo calls on his own experience as a Cape Verdean immigrant from West Africa who had to surmount the barriers imposed by the world's most entrenched monolingual system of higher education. His eloquence in this book is testimony to the very idea that critical thinking and good education are not and must not be culturally or linguistically bounded.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Donaldo Macedo is Professor of English and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a leading authority in language studies and has published extensively in the areas of Creole languages, critical literacy, biligualism, and multiculturalism. His publications include Literacy: Reading the Word and the Word (with Paulo Freire, 1987), Dancing with Bigotry: Beyond the Politics of Tolerance (with Lilia Bartolome, 1999), Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (with Howard Zinn, 2005) and Globalization of Racism (edited with Panayota Gounari, 2005). He is a collaborator with Noam Chomsky on the recently published book, Chomsky On Miseducation . His published work has been translated into several languages.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Westview Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0813322529
• ISBN 13: 9780813322520
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 206