Hilary Janks

Literacy and Power (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Janks shows how competing orientations to critical literacy education - power, access, diversity, design - foreground one over the other. Her central argument is that these different orientations are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create new possibilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135197841
• Artikelnr.: 38242877

Autorenporträt

Hilary Janks is a professor in Applied English Language Studies in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Sonia Nieto
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Turning to Literacy
2. Orientations to Literacy
3. Language and Power
4. Reading Texts Critically
5. Diversity, Difference and Disparity
6. Access, Gate-Keeping and Desire
7. Critical Text Production: Writing and Design
8. Redesign, Social Action and Possibilities for Transformation
9. The Future of Critical Literacy
References
Index