1st Edition

Literacy, Power, and the Schooled Body Learning in Time and Space

By Kerryn Dixon Copyright 2011
200 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

What effects do space and time have on classroom management, discipline, and regulation? How do teachers’ practices create schooled and literate students? To explore these questions, this book looks at early childhood classrooms, charting the shifts and continuities as four-year-old children begin preschool, move from preschool into primary school, and come to the end of the first phase of... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

  1. Schooling the Body
  2. Schooling and Space
  3. Space and Time
  4. Managing and Regulating Bodies
  5. Reading Bodies
  6. Writing Bodies
  7. Assessing Bodies
  8. Implications for Literacy Education

References

Index

Biography

Kerryn Dixon is a Lecturer in the Department of English and the Department of Applied English Language Studies, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.