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Toward a Literacy of Promise: Joining the African American Struggle - Language, Culture, and Teaching Series 1st edition
Toward a Literacy of Promise: Joining the African American Struggle - Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
Examines popular assumptions about literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used historically both to empower and to oppress. The authors offer an alternative view of literacy - a 'literacy of promise' - that charts an emancipatory agenda for literacy instructional practices in schools.
224 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 8, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415995184 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 570 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Powell, Rebecca (Georgetown College, Kentucky, USA) |
| Editor | Spears-Bunton, Linda A. (Florida International University, USA) |