Literacy with an Attitude

2nd Edition

Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest

Patrick J. Finn
eISBN-13: 9781438428048

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<p>A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.</p><p>Winner of the 2010 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association </p><p>The classic, indispensable guide for teachers, parents, and community organizers concerned with educating working-class children, Literacy with an Attitude dares to define literacy as a powerful right of citizenship. Patrick J. Finn persuasively debunks the time-honored paradigm for teaching poor and working-class students. Our job, he argues, is not to help such students to become middle class and live middle-class lives-most don't want it. Education rather should focus on a powerful literacy-a literacy with an attitude-that enables working-class and poor students to better understand, demand, and protect their civil, political, and social rights.</p><p>This tenth-anniversary, second edition features eight new chapters and a revised and updated original text.</p>

ISBNs 9781438428048, 1438428049, 9781438428055
Language English
Edition 2nd