{"product_id":"toward-a-literacy-of-promise-1","title":"Toward a Literacy of Promise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"[This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served; it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of color bring; and it gives us hope for educating a generation that can change the status quo, that will build the America we have yet to see...the one that made that as-yet-unfulfilled promise of ‘liberty and justice for all.’\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Delpit, From the Foreword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToward a Literacy of Promise \u003c\/em\u003eexamines popular assumptions about literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used historically both to empower and to oppress. The authors offer an alternative view of literacy – a \"literacy of promise\" – that charts an emancipatory agenda for literacy instructional practices in schools. Weaving together critical perspectives on pedagogy, language, literature, and popular texts, each chapter provides an in-depth discussion that illuminates how a literacy of promise can be realized in school and classrooms. Although the major focus is on African American middle and secondary students as a population that has experienced the consequences of inequality, the chapters demonstrate general and specific applications to other populations. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262206726488,"sku":"9780805845365","price":65.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780805845365_a645b4e6-ebf4-45f5-9e14-a12381afa93c.jpg?v=1769719542","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/toward-a-literacy-of-promise-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}