Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Critical literacy as political intervention: Three variations on a theme
Kevin Harris
2 Informing critical literacy with ethnography
Gary L. Anderson and Patricia Irvine
3 Critical literacy and the politics of gender
Barbara Bee
4 The challenge of popular education in the Grenada revolution
Didacus Jules
5 Words to a life-land: Literacy, the imagination, and Palestine
CHRIS SEARLE
6 Between moral regulation and democracy: The cultural contradictions of the text
Michael W. Apple
7 Literacy and urban school reform: Beyond vulgar pragmatism
Dennis Carlson
8 Literacy, pedagogy, and English studies: Postmodern connections
James A. Berlin
9 Postmodernism and literacies
James Paul Gee
10 Reading and writing the media: Critical media literacy and postmodernism
David Sholle and Stan Denski
11 Feminist literacies: Toward emancipatory possibilities of solidarity
Jeanne Brady and Adriana Hernandez
12 (Dis)connecting literacy and sexuality: Speaking the unspeakable in the classroom
Kathleen Rockhill
13 Literacy and the politics of difference
Henry Giroux
14 Critical literacy and the postmodern turn
Peter L. McLaren and Colin Lankshear
Postscript to "Critical literacy and the postmodern turn"
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Synopsis
Colin Lankshear, formerly Senior Lecturer in Education at Auckland University in New Zealand, is an educational consultant and writer. He is the author of several books, including, Freedom and Education, Education and Rights (with Ivan Snook), Going for Gold (with Allan Levett), and Literacy, Schooling, and Revolution. Peter McLaren is Professor and Renowned Scholar in Residence in the School of Education and Allied Professions at Miami University, and co-director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies. He is the author of numerous books in education, including Life in Schools and Schooling as a Ritual Performance, and editor with Henry Giroux of Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle, also published by SUNY Press.