The Powers of Literacy: A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822961040 ISBN 13 : 9780822961048

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993

Synopsis

The genre approach to literacy teaching represents a fundamentally new educational paradigm. It emphasizes content, structure, and sequence in learning literacy. However, it moves beyond traditional literacy pedagogies which stress formal correctness; it also goes beyond the process pedagogies which stress \u201cnatural learning\u201d through \u201cdoing\u201d writing. The genre method of literacy teaching in not liberal progressivism, nor is it part of a new movement \u201cback to basics\u201d; it is attempting to create a new pedagogical space.
The Powers of Literacy introduces this original theory and practice for the teaching of literacy with contributions from key theorists and practitioners in the genre literacy movement. The essays present this innovative and exciting new approach to teaching literacy in a clear, practical, and accessible way, incorporating historical explanations. The result is a vital contribution to the on-going educational debate on literacy.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power. Drawing perspectives variously from critical social theory and cultural studies, poststructuralism and feminisms, sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication, social history and comparative education, the contributors begin a critical interrogation of taken-for-granted assumptions which have guided educational policy, research and practice.

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822961040
• ISBN 13: 9780822961048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Cope Bill, Kalantzis Mary
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible