Literacy, Power, and the Schooled Body - Learning in Time and Space

Informationen zum Autor Kerryn Dixon is a Lecturer in the Department of English and the Department of Applied English Language Studies, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Klappentext This book examines how children's bodies are trained in time and space to produce schooled, literate individuals. Moving from theory to practice, examples of real classroom events show how teachers' practices direct discipline onto children's bodies. Zusammenfassung This book examines how children’s bodies are trained in time and space to produce schooled, literate individuals. Moving from theory to practice, examples of real classroom events show how teachers’ practices direct discipline onto children’s bodies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Schooling the Body Schooling and Space Space and Time Managing and Regulating Bodies Reading Bodies Writing Bodies Assessing Bodies Implications for Literacy Education References Index

Product details

• Authors: Kerryn Dixon, Kerryn (University of Witwatersrand Dixon, Dixon Kerryn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2010
• EAN: 9780415879620
• ISBN: 978-0-415-87962-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Classroom Management, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten