With Literacy & Justice For Al: 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

This volume presents analyses of educational and research practices with the first part highlighting bilingual education (the language strengths of minority children), and the second part focusing on whole language (theoretical assumptions, possibilities and limitations), and progressive ways of evaluating students. The book concludes by re-iterating the socio-political nature of literacy, of whole language, and, by implication, of educational and language practices.

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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

 

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748405836
• ISBN 13: 9780748405831
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272