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Control # 1 hbl99045848
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20220628091404.0
Fixed Data 8 081215s2009 nyu b s001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2008054155
ISBN 20    $a9781438428055 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 20    $a9781438428062 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Obsolete 39    $a263168$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$cDLC$dGCG
Geog. Area 43    $an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aLC5051$b.F56 2009
Dewey Class 82 00 $a371.826/230973$222
ME:Pers Name 100 $aFinn, Patrick J.
Title 245 10 $aLiteracy with an attitude :$beducating working-class children in their own self-interest /$cPatrick J. Finn.
Edition 250    $a2nd ed.
Imprint 260    $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2009.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axix, 311 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aTitle, 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.
Local Note 590    $aRecommended in Resources for College Libraries
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWorking class$xEducation$zUnited States.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aLiteracy$zUnited States.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aLanguage arts$zUnited States.