Examines public and private writings of low-income urban, pre-adolescent girls, illuminating ways that girl's voice are often silenced in schools and society. She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the importance of including all of the girls' ...
This text examines in detail two basic questions: what is literacy and how do individuals become literate? It is a compendium of contemporary resource materials and practice. Coverage includes: various definitions of literacy, fundamental reasons for promoting it, and contemporary debates; the invention of alphabetic literacy, its effect upon ...
Examines public and private writings of low-income urban, pre-adolescent girls, illuminating ways that girl's voice are often silenced in schools and society. She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the importance of including all of the girls' ...
"A Culture of Refusal is a unique attempt at representing a set of what William Ayers calls « multiply-marginalized adolescents, situating the voices of migrant and incarcerated youth within out-of-school contexts--in the fields and the streets, and ultimately, in the jails--where these youth live and develop their own cultures of refusal. ...
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