商品簡介
In this provocative look at how social, political, and economic contexts inform the literacy education field, the author shows how competing representations of poverty underlie our assumptions about IQ testing, textbook content, national standards, standardized achievement tests, volunteerism, school/business partnerships, and other contemporary issues in education. Laying out careful critiques of initiatives like America Reads and popular texts like The Bell Curve , he offers a new theory of poverty which seeks to blur traditional class lines in America. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
A former preschool and primary grades teacher, PATRICK SHANNON is currently a professor of education at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of nine books, including Reading Poverty (1998), text, lies,
