Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest

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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. 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 “Us” as “Not Them” 5. THE LADS 6. CHANGING CONDITIONS—ENTRENCHED SCHOOLS 7. CLASS, CONTROL, LANGUAGE, AND LITERACY 8. WHERE LITERACY “EMERGES” 9. WHERE CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT TO SIT STILL AND LISTEN 10. THE LAST STRAW: There’s Literacy, and Then There’s Literacy 11. LITERACY WITH AN ATTITUDE 12. NOT QUITE MAKING LITERACY DANGEROUS AGAIN 13. SCHOOLS AND A SQUARE DEAL FOR WORKING PEOPLE 14. CITIZENS’ 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 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U W Y