Advocacy Research in Literacy Education Seeking Higher Ground

Zusatztext “This book convincingly and thoroughly makes an argument, and offers conceptual and practical support, for advocacy research in critical literacy education. It represents a brilliant and significant contribution to the field of literacy education.” — University of Alberta Informationen zum Autor Meredith Rogers Cherland, Helen Harper Zusammenfassung This book reviews what the authors term advocacy research in literacy education—research that explicitly addresses issues of social justice, equity, and democracy with the distinct purpose of social transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. Introduction: Advocacy, Research, and Education. Paulo Freire and Critical Literacy(ies). Radical Counternarratives in Literacy Research I: Feminist and Queer Theory. Radical Counternarratives in Literacy Research II: Postcolonial Theory and Critical Race Theory. Literacy as Social Practice. Linguistic Studies. Why Social Justice? Ethics for Advocacy Research. The Literate Body. Literacy, Democracy, and Freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith Rogers Cherland, Meredith (University of Regina Cherland, Helen Harper, Meredith Rogers Harper Cherland, Harper Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 13.11.2006
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9780805850574
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-5057-4
• Pages: 360
• Subjects: Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Teaching of a specific subject, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, Social justice Education, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing), educational ethics, equity in schooling, qualitative literacy studies, democratic pedagogy, transformative literacy research practice, student agency research