Literacy with an Attitude
Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest
- 332 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Literacy with an Attitude
Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest
About this book
A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.
Winner of the 2010 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
The classic, indispensable guide for teachers, parents, and community organizers concerned with educating working-class children, Literacy with an Attitude dares to define literacy as a powerful right of citizenship. Patrick J. Finn persuasively debunks the time-honored paradigm for teaching poor and working-class students. Our job, he argues, is not to help such students to become middle class and live middle-class lives-most don't want it. Education rather should focus on a powerful literacy-a literacy with an attitude-that enables working-class and poor students to better understand, demand, and protect their civil, political, and social rights.
This tenth-anniversary, second edition features eight new chapters and a revised and updated original text.
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Table of contents
- Literacy with an Attitude
- Contents
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- 1. TITLE, AUTHOR, AND HARD-BITTEN SCHOOLTEACHERS
- 2. A DISTINCTLY UN-AMERICAN IDEA: An Education Appropriate to Their Station
- 3. HARSH SCHOOLS, BIG BOYS, AND THE PROGRESSIVE SOLUTION
- 4. OPPOSITIONAL IDENTITY: Identifying āUsā as āNot Themā
- 5. THE LADS
- 6. CHANGING CONDITIONSāENTRENCHED SCHOOLS
- 7. CLASS, CONTROL, LANGUAGE, AND LITERACY
- 8. WHERE LITERACY āEMERGESā
- 9. WHERE CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT TO SIT STILL AND LISTEN
- 10. THE LAST STRAW: Thereās Literacy, and Then Thereās Literacy
- 11. LITERACY WITH AN ATTITUDE
- 12. NOT QUITE MAKING LITERACY DANGEROUS AGAIN
- 13. SCHOOLS AND A SQUARE DEAL FOR WORKING PEOPLE
- 14. CITIZENSā RIGHTS VS. SOCIAL CLASSAND A FREE-MARKET ECONOMY: Acknowledging Conflict and Seeking Equity
- 15. TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HEIRS TO THECORRESPONDING SOCIETIES AND A NEW PARADIGM FOREDUCATING WORKING-CLASS STUDENTS
- 16. TEACHERS WHO AGITATE: Freirean Motivation in the Classroom
- 17. AGITATING STUDENTS AND STUDENTS WHO AGITATE
- 18. AGITATING PARENTS AND PARENTS WHO AGITATE
- 19. SCALING AGITATION UPWARD
- 20. IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND A FEW LINES FROM LES MISERABLES
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index