Containing a collection of essays about the nature of literacy in the midst of social, economic, political and cultural changes, this book is constructed as a series of 'paired' essays with responses which critique the previous writer. The contents are as follows: Critical literacy and the question of normativity: an introduction / Allan Luke and Peter Freebody (pp.1-18); Media literacy and cultural studies / Carmen Luke (pp.19-50); Pleasure and danger: children, media and cultural systems, response to Carmen Luke (pp.51-68); Discourses on gender and literacy: changing the stories / Pam Gilber
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Containing a collection of essays about the nature of literacy in the midst of social, economic, political and cultural changes, this book is constructed as a series of 'paired' essays with responses which critique the previous writer. The contents are as follows: Critical literacy and the question of normativity: an introduction / Allan Luke and Peter Freebody (pp.1-18); Media literacy and cultural studies / Carmen Luke (pp.19-50); Pleasure and danger: children, media and cultural systems, response to Carmen Luke (pp.51-68); Discourses on gender and literacy: changing the stories / Pam Gilbert (pp. 69-76); Reading the silences within critical feminist theory, response to Pam Gilbert / Parlo Singh (pp.77-94); Critical literacy and active citizenship / Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel (pp.95-124); Critical literacies for informed citizenship: further thoughts on possible actions, response to Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel / M. Garbutcheon Singh and Pat Moran (pp.125-136); Coda and response to Singh and Pat Moran / Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel (pp.137-140); Critical literacy and control in the new world order / Nicholas Faraclas (pp.141-172); Tradition, colonialism, and critical literacy, response to Nicholas Faraclas / Fazal Rizvi (pp.173-180); Postcolonialism in an era of recolonization, response to Fazal Rizvi / Nicholas Faraclas (pp.181-184); The social practices of reading / Allan Luke and Peter Freebody (pp.185-226); Reading with an attitude, or deconstructing 'critical literacies', response to Allan Luke and Peter Freebody / Bill Green (pp.227-242); Literacy practices and classroom order / Carolyn D. Baker (pp.243-262); Critical order and change in the literacy classroom, response to Carolyn D. Baker / Jill Freiberg and Peter Freebody (pp.263-272); Meanings in discourses: coordinating and being coordinated / James Paul Gee (pp.273-302); Relativism in the politics of discourse, response to James Paul Gee / Mary Macken-Horaik (pp.303-314); After English: toward a less critical literacy / Ian Hunter (pp.315-334); Setting limits to English, response to Ian Hunter / Annette Patterson (pp.335-352); Critical literacies and the teaching of English / Terry Threadgold (pp.353-387); Toward a critical writing pedagogy in English, response to Terry Threadgold / Barbara Kamler (pp.388-408); Questioning the critical: linguistics, literacy and curriculum / Alison Lee (pp.409-432); Repoliticizing critique, response to Alison Lee / Anna Yeatman (pp.433-440).
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