The Right to literacy / edited by Andrea A. Lunsford, Helene Moglen, and James Slevin.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Modern Language Association of America, 1990.
Description306 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorLunsford, Andrea A., 1942-
Other author/creatorMoglen, Helene, 1936-2018
Other author/creatorSlevin, James F., 1945-
Other author/creatorModern Language Association of America.
Other author/creatorRight to Literacy Conference (1988 : Ohio State University)
Contents Introduction / Andrea A. Lunsford, Helene Moglen, and James Slevin -- Public literacy : puzzlements of a high school watcher / Theodore R. Sizer -- Producing adult readers : 1930-50 / David Bartholomae -- Becoming literate : a lesson from the Amish / Andrea R. Fishman -- Time to write : resistance to literacy in a Maine fishing community / John S. Lofty -- Collaboration, collaborative communities, and Black folk culture / Keith D. Miller and Elizabeth A. Vander Lei -- Rural poverty and literacy in the Mississippi Delta : dilemmas, paradoxes, and conundrums / Anthony Petrosky -- Literacy and the politics of education / C.H. Knoblauch -- The English department and social class : resisting writing / James Thomas Zebroski.\"Knowledge is power" : the Black struggle for literarcy / Thomas Holt -- Perspectives on the intellectual tradition of Black women writers / Jacqueline Jones Royster -- Censorship and spiritual education / James Moffett -- Caliban in the composition classroom / Donald Rothman -- Censorship, identification, and the poetics of need / Deanne Bogdan -- On teaching convicts / Maurice Laurence, Jr. -- The rhetoric of empowerment in writing programs / Harriet Malinowitz -- Literacy and citizenship : resisting social issues / David Bleich -- Language, logic, and literacy / Keith Walters -- Literary and knowledge / Deborah Brandt -- The situation of literacy and cognition : what we can learn from the Uzbek experiment / Beth Daniell.\aIn praise of the local and transitory / Kathryn Thomas Flannery -- Bloomsday : doomsday book for literacy? / C. Jan Swearingen -- The ideology of literacy : a Bakhtinian perspective / Charles Schuster -- Toward a social-cognitive understanding of problematic reading and writing / Glynda Hull and Mike Rose -- Cross-age tutoring : the right to literacy / J. Elspeth Stuckey and Kenneth Alston -- Enacting critical literacy / John Clifford -- Adolescent vernacular writing : literacy reconsidered / Miriam P. Camitta -- The world, the text, and the reader / Paula M. Salvio -- Collaboration, resistance, and the teaching of writing / Suzanne Clark and Lise Ede -- The fourth vision : literate language at work / Shirley Brice Heath.
General notePapers originally presented at the Right to Literacy Conference sponsored by the Modern Language Association in 1988.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Genre/formConference papers and proceedings.
Genre/formConference papers and proceedings.
LCCN 90033855
ISBN0873521978
ISBN9780873521970
ISBN0873521986 (pbk.)
ISBN9780873521987 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks LC151 .R54 1990 ✔ Available Place Hold