{"product_id":"literacy-with-an-attitude","title":"Literacy with an Attitude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2010 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe classic, indispensable guide for teachers, parents, and community organizers concerned with educating working-class children, Literacy with an Attitude dares to define literacy as a powerful right of citizenship. Patrick J. Finn persuasively debunks the time-honored paradigm for teaching poor and working-class students. Our job, he argues, is not to help such students to become middle class and live middle-class lives-most don't want it. Education rather should focus on a powerful literacy-a literacy with an attitude-that enables working-class and poor students to better understand, demand, and protect their civil, political, and social rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tenth-anniversary, second edition features eight new chapters and a revised and updated original text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410596909400,"sku":"9781438428062","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438428062_f10dcbd9-ae78-4e0e-98c7-80fa4eeca44e.jpg?v=1777897826","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/literacy-with-an-attitude","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}