1st Edition
Critical Literacy What Every American Needs to Know
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Critical Literacy Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. challenges E. D. Hirsch's assumptions about culture and education. Calling for a broader and more democratic vision than Hirsch, Provenzo critiques Hirsch's legacy up through the current conservative educational agenda for education which, he argues, denies, not only the United States' diversity, but its democratic traditions of democratic participation.... Read more
Introduction; Cultural Literacy and the Loss of Democratic Dialogue; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.
Biography
Eugene F.Michael W. Provenzojr, Apple
"Provenzo helps restore a vision of education that extends beyond “the facts.” Critical Literacy is a book that is needed more than ever right now."
— Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Provenzo writes words that are both achingly accurate and prescient: our diversity, he writes, is ‘our curse and challenge as a people, our blessing and our future’ (p. 68). In his book, Provenzo provides a more hopeful and more democratic way to face this future." Sonia Nieto, Teacher's College Record
