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Literacy and Empowerment Patrick L. Courts

Literacy and Empowerment par Patrick L. Courts

Literacy and Empowerment Patrick L. Courts


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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.

Literacy and Empowerment Résumé

Literacy and Empowerment: The Meaning Makers Patrick L. Courts

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.

À propos de Patrick L. Courts

PATRICK L. COURTS is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is author of The Creative Word and has published numerous articles on literacy.

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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

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CIN0897892615G
9780897892612
0897892615
Literacy and Empowerment: The Meaning Makers Patrick L. Courts
Occasion - Bon état
Broché
ABC-CLIO
19911007
216
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