Defying the odds :: class and the pursuit of higher literacy /

"In this book at why some determinedly pursue higher literacy against all expectations and predictions, Donna Dunbar-Odom explores the complex relationships people have with literacy, paying particular attention to the relationship between literacy and class. She shares the personal and often p...

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1. Verfasser: Dunbar-Odom, Donna
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Zusammenfassung:"In this book at why some determinedly pursue higher literacy against all expectations and predictions, Donna Dunbar-Odom explores the complex relationships people have with literacy, paying particular attention to the relationship between literacy and class. She shares the personal and often poignant literacy narratives of writers, academics, and her own students to reveal a great deal about what motivates desire for higher literacy, as well as what gets in the way. Bringing together these reflections with current literacy, composition, and class theories, Dunbar-Odom provides a better understanding of how to tap that desire in writing classrooms. Ultimately, the author argues that teachers need to focus less attention on how students should read and more on why they might want to."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 139 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-136) and index.
ISBN:9781429471251
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0791469727
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