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"Eyes on the Ought to Be": What We Teach About When We Teach About Literacy (Research and Teaching in Rhetoric and Composition)
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Hardcover. Explores tensions surrounding the teaching of literacy in three settings of nontraditional adult education: correctional education, vocational education, and the Highlander Folk School. Series Editor(s): Williamson, Michael; O'Neill, Peggy. Series: Research in the Teaching of Rhetoric and Composition. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; JNU; YQCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
This book explores tensions surrounding the teaching of literacy in three settings of nontraditional adult education: correctional education, vocational education, and the Highlander Folk School. What literacy is supposed to do, and thus what it means, varies widely across these discourses. At its center of the book is the belief that teachers and scholars must understand the worlds toward which they, and the institutions they teach within, aspire to create through the process of education.
This book explores tensions surrounding the teaching of literacy in three settings of nontraditional adult education: correctional education, vocational education, and the Highlander Folk School. What literacy is supposed to do, and thus what it means, varies widely across these discourses. At its center of the book is the belief that teachers and scholars must understand the worlds toward which they, and the institutions they teach within, aspire to create through the process of education.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hampton Pr
Condition
New
Series
Research in the Teaching of Rhetoric and Composition
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Cresskill, United States
ISBN
9781572737136
SKU
V9781572737136
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