The Powers Of Literacy: A Genre Approach to Teaching Writing (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822961040 ISBN 13: 9780822961048

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993

Synopsis

The genre approach to literacy teaching represents a fundamentally new educational paradigm. It emphasizes content, structure, and sequence in learning literacy. However, it moves beyond traditional literacy pedagogies which stress formal correctness; it also goes beyond the process pedagogies which stress \u201cnatural learning\u201d through \u201cdoing\u201d writing. The genre method of literacy teaching in not liberal progressivism, nor is it part of a new movement \u201cback to basics\u201d; it is attempting to create a new pedagogical space.
The Powers of Literacy introduces this original theory and practice for the teaching of literacy with contributions from key theorists and practitioners in the genre literacy movement. The essays present this innovative and exciting new approach to teaching literacy in a clear, practical, and accessible way, incorporating historical explanations. The result is a vital contribution to the on-going educational debate on literacy.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822961040
• ISBN 13: 9780822961048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Cope Bill, Kalantzis Mary