Author:
Finn, Patrick J.
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
Descriptionxix, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Title, author, and hard-bitten schoolteachers -- A distinctly un-American idea : an education appropriate to their station -- Harsh schools, big boys, and the progressive solution -- Oppositional identity : identifying "us" as "not them" -- The lads -- changing conditions -- entrenched schools -- Class, control, language, and literacy -- Where literacy "emerges" -- Where children are taught to sit still and listen -- The last straw : there's literacy, and then there's literacy -- Literacy with an attitude -- Not quite making literacy dangerous again -- Schools and a square deal for working people -- Citizens' rights vs. social class and a free-market economy : acknowledging conflict and seeking equity -- Twentieth- and twenty-first century heirs to the corresponding societies and a new paradigm for educating working-class students -- Teachers who agitate : Freirean motivation in the classroom -- Agitating students and students who agitate -- Agitating parents and parents who agitate -- Scaling agitation upward -- Important concepts and a few lines from Les Miserables.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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