Reading Poverty by Patrick Shannon (1998, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHeinemann
ISBN-100325000174
ISBN-139780325000176
eBay Product ID (ePID)449582
Product Key Features
Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School
Number of Pages230 Pages
Publication NameReading Poverty
LanguageEnglish
SubjectReading Skills, Poverty & Homelessness, Literacy, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Publication Year1998
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaSocial Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education
AuthorPatrick Shannon
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceElementary/High School
LCCN97-046358
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"[This is] an extraordinary book-an insightful, passionate, clearly-written book-for understanding literacy education and its place in the political and economic landscape." Gerald Coles, "[This is] an extraordinary book-an insightful, passionate, clearly-written book-for understanding literacy education and its place in the political and economic landscape."- Gerald Coles, "[This is] an extraordinary book-an insightful, passionate, clearly-written book-for understanding literacy education and its place in the political and economic landscape."-Gerald Coles
Grade FromKindergarten
Dewey Decimal428.4/071
Grade ToEighth Grade
Synopsis"Poverty has everything to do with schooling-how it is theorized, how it is organized, how it runs." So says author Patrick Shannon in this provocative look at how social, political, and economic contexts inform the literacy education field. Here we see how competing representations of poverty underlie our assumptions about IQ testing, textbook content, national standards, standardized achievement tests, volunteerism, school/business partnerships, and many other contemporary issues in education. The author lays out a careful critique of initiatives like America Reads and popular texts like William Bennett's The Book of Virtues and Hernstein and Murray's The Bell Curve . Uncovering the inherent biases in these approaches, Shannon argues that we have perpetuated a system geared toward the protection of property over the well-being of people. While Reading Poverty offers no panacea, it does offer new tools for analyzing our goals for reading education. Undergraduate students, graduate researchers, preservice and inservice teachers, parents--indeed anyone interested in education reform will be intrigued by Shannon's new theory of poverty, which seeks to blur traditional class lines among Americans in order to direct us toward a more just and equitable society., A provocative look at how social, political, and economic contexts inform the literacy education field.
LC Classification NumberLC4086.S53 1998
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