With Literacy And Justice For All: Rethinking The Social In Language And Education (Critical Perspectives on Literacy and Education) - Softcover

Edelsky, Carole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748405836 ISBN 13: 9780748405831

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1996

Synopsis

With Literacy and Justice for All is not simply about the great debate over literacy and language education. It is a debate in itself, one which addresses, interrogates and engages teachers, teacher educators and researchers. The attempt here to 'rethink the social in language and education' speaks not only of the need to counter 'anti-humane' practices and 'deskilling' curricular technologies - it also serves to represent one teacher and researcher's practical engagement with emergent theories of language and education. This volume documents Carole Edelsky's decade long involvement with socially critical holistic approaches to the everyday problems and possibilities facing teachers of language and literacy. There are no simplistic pedagogical formulae on offer here. Instead, the essays progressively work through differences and tensions in the discourses and practices of sociolinguistics and bilingual education, whole language and critical pedagogy - educational 'fields' whose practitioners and advocates often work in isolation from each other and, at times, at cross purposes. This second edition features a new preface and concluding chapter, presenting an up to-date statement of Edelsky's thinking on language, literacy and education. It forms an account of what has happened to the author as an academic and scholar since (and partly because of) the publication of the first edition. The new concluding essay initiates a discussion on retheorizing holistic conceptions of language education.

About this title

About the Author

Carole Edelsky is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University.

Review

"The title and subtitle of Carole Edelsky's new edition of With Literacy and Justice For All: Rethinking the Social in Language and Education are more relevant now than when the second edition appeared in 1996. Political and economic changes have profoundly redefined language and literacy for teachers and children.... [The Third Edition] further documents the sociopolitical nature of schooling and in particular, language learning.... We are privileged to read 1) the evolution of Edelsky's thinking, and 2) the effects of the political then and now. Edelsky addresses many issues that are frightening and the book's disturbances compel readers to action. [Its] release comes at just the right time."--Steve Bialostok, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

"The third edition of Carole Edelsky's text remains just as relevant for educational practitioners and language policy administrators today as when it was originally published some 15 years ago...This text offers up a true picture of the educational landscape as it was and is, and suggestions on how to combat harmful policy with holistic pedagogy."--Amy Schwartz, Language Policy (2008), 7: 305-307

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748405836
• ISBN 13: 9780748405831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 272