Considering Literacy

by Adler-Kassner, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780321113382
• ISBN10: 0321113381
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-22
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Showing the important connection between education and Literacy, this collection of writing assignments and readings encourage readers to think about their experiences in college. Writing Assignments provide a flexible structure and help students practice writing strategies and make connections between familiar and new writing strategies. Readings provide a variety of approaches to literacy and encourage students to think creatively and innovatively about how they and others define "education" and "literacy." Included are narratives, analytical pieces, and essays. College students wanting to improve their writing skills.

Table of Contents

Alternate Contents	v
Instructor's Introduction	vi
About This Book: Approaches and Assignments	1	(6)
Reading Words and Images	7	(8)
``Getting'' Reading	8	(1)
Reading Questions	9	(1)
Strategic Reading	10	(3)
Reading Images	13	(2)
Assignments	15	(44)
``Learning from Self'' Assignments	16	(11)
Expectations and Experiences	16	(1)
Influencing Your Literacy Development	17	(2)
The Purposes of Schooling	19	(2)
Why Are You Here?	21	(1)
``Your'' Campus	22	(1)
Your Literacy History and Its Significance	23	(2)
Your Literacy Development	25	(2)
``Learning from Others'' Assignments	27	(13)
What Is the Purpose of Education and Literacy?	27	(4)
Literacy Practices and Schooling	31	(1)
Testing Definitions: Dominant and Vernacular Literacies	32	(2)
What Counts as ``Learning,'' and for Whom?	34	(1)
How Is Literacy and Education Defined by You and by Others?	35	(2)
Community Literacies	37	(3)
``Learning Through Research'' Assignments	40	(17)
Debating the Purpose of School	41	(2)
Representing the College Experience	43	(2)
Designing Assessments	45	(1)
What Counts, for What, and Who Says?	46	(2)
Analyzing Literacy Experiences	48	(2)
Positive Learning Experiences	50	(1)
What Is Taught and Why	51	(2)
Underrepresented Genres	53	(1)
Observing Literacy Practices	54	(3)
``Speaking Out, Joining In, Talk Back'' Assignment	57	(2)
Speaking Out, Joining In, Speaking Back: Acting on Ideas About Education	57	(2)
Readings About Uses of Learning	59	(38)
David Barton and Mary Hamilton, ``Literacy Practices''	60	(7)
bell hooks, ``Engaged Pedagogy''	67	(7)
Paolo Freire, ``The Banking Concept of Education''	74	(11)
Theodore Sizer, ``What High School Is''	85	(12)
Readings About Learners	97	(124)
David Barton and Mary Hamilton, ``How They've Fared in Education: Harry's Literacy Practices''	98	(15)
Lorene Cary, From Black Ice	113	(13)
Mark Edmundson, ``On the Uses of a Liberal Education: I. As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students''	126	(14)
Andrea Fishman, ``Becoming Literate: A Lesson from the Amish''	140	(10)
June Jordan, ``Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan''	150	(14)
Robert Louthan, ``Heavy Machinery''	164	(1)
Mike Rose, ``I Just Wanna Be Average''	165	(20)
Michael Ryan, ``The Ditch''	185	(2)
Earl Shorris, ``On the Uses of a Liberal Education: II. As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor''	187	(14)
Ron Suskind, ``Fierce Intimacies''	201	(20)
Readings About Learning (In and Out of School)	221	(138)
W.E.B. DuBois, ``Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others''	222	(10)
Kate Daniels, ``Self-Portrait with Politics''	232	(3)
Frederick Douglass, From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave	235	(5)
Darcy Frey, ``The Last Shot''	240	(25)
Stanley Kaplan, ``My 54-Year Love Affair with the SAT''	265	(8)
Nicholas Lemann, ``The President's Big Test''	273	(7)
Teresa McCarty, ``Community and Classroom''	280	(12)
Michael Moffatt, ``What College Is Really Like''	292	(16)
``Executive Summary of the No Child Left Behind Act''	308	(5)
``Wendy Darling'', ``What `No Child Left Behind' Left Behind''	313	(6)
Gary Orfield and Johanna Wald, ``Testing, Testing''	319	(5)
Peter Sacks, ``Do No Harm: Stopping the Damage to American Schools''	324	(14)
James Traub, ``The Test Mess''	338	(14)
Booker T. Washington, ``The Atlanta Exposition Address''	352	(7)
Photographs	359	(12)
Mr. Leatherman's son reading in front of fireplace	360	(1)
Boys read storybooks in the shade	360	(1)
Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman	361	(1)
Oil field workers reading the paper	361	(1)
Reading construction plans and measuring	362	(1)
Chief of police reading picket sign	362	(1)
Preacher reading the lesson	363	(1)
Man reading to fellow inmates	363	(1)
Photographs from School	364	(4)
New York Public Library Grand Reading Room	368	(1)
Reading: Times Square, 2005	368	(1)
Reading building plans	369	(1)
Reading in motion	369	(1)
Modern texts for modern times	370	(1)
Man reading an Arabic newspaper	370	(1)
Credits	371	(1)
Index	372