Words in the Wilderness : Critical Literacy in the Borderlands

by Brown, Stephen Gilbert; Olson, Gary A.

• ISBN13: 9780791444054
• ISBN10: 0791444058
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Reflecting and building upon his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian reservation in Alaska, Brown (writing, U. of Tampa) attempts to incorporate his experience and the theories of Freire and other critical pedagogists into a work which recommends a resistance pedagogy for colonized and oppressed peoples. He relates his own transformation from a unwitting tool of the colonizer to someone who learned from his students what works in engaging "border" students education, throughout relating the material to current theoretical radical pedagogy.

Author Biography

Stephen Gilbert Brown is Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of Tampa.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Gary A. Olson
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Of Words in the Wilderness	1	(10)
How I Came to Be a Bush Teacher	11	(28)
Calibans of the Contact Zone: Resistance and Marginality in the Borderlands	39	(42)
The Bush Teacher as Cultural Imperialist	81	(22)
Beyond the Contact Zone: Theorizing the Dialogic Classroom	103	(20)
Adventures in Cultural Tourism: Foxfire and the Fetishization of the Authentic	123	(34)
Decomposing the Canon: Alter/Native Narratives from the Borderlands	157	(24)
Teachning the Cultural Conflicts: Toward a Literacy of Resistance	181	(36)
References	217	(8)
Index	225