Reclaiming Writing: Composing Spaces for Identities, Relationships, and Actions

Meyer, Richard J. (Editor)/ Whitmore, Kathryn F. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0415827043 / ISBN 13: 9780415827041

Published by Routledge, 2013

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1st edition. 280 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reclaiming Writing: Composing Spaces for Identities, Relationships, and Actions
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415827043
• ISBN 13: 9780415827041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.68 kilograms

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Synopsis

With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula. Classrooms and out-of-school settings are described and analyzed in exciting and groundbreaking narratives that provide insights into the many possibilities for writing that support writers’ searches for voice, identity, and agency.

Offering pedagogical strategies and the knowledge base in which they are grounded, the book looks at writing within various areas of the curriculum and across modes of writing from traditional text-based forums to digital formats. Thematically based sections present the pillars of the volume’s critical transactive theory: learning, teaching, curriculum, language, and sociocultural contexts. Each chapter is complemented by an extension that offers application possibilities for teachers in various settings. Reclaiming Writing emphasizes literacy as a vehicle for exploring, interrogating, challenging, finding self, talking back to power, creating a space in the world, reflecting upon the past, and thinking forward to a more joyful and democratic future.

About the Author

Richard J. Meyer is Professor, University of New Mexico, College of Education, Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, USA.

Kathryn F. Whitmore is the Ashland Inc./Nystrand Chair in Early Childhood Education, College of Education and Human Development, University of Louisville, USA.