Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling
Other, pp.1-4, 2006
- Publication Type: Other Publication / Other
- Publication Date: 2006
- Page Numbers: pp.1-4
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Akdeniz University Affiliated: No
Abstract
Ethnographic research as a critical practice has produced a considerable amount of knowledge and the effect of such a lens is still visible in the works of many academics and practitioners currently situated at all levels of education as well as in academia. Such voices have discussed educational and socioeconomic issues related to power, race, literacy, pedagogy, and agency by situating these problems in the framework of equity and diversity as a social practice among many others. Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling is a book which follows the aforementioned tradition by looking into the lives of those agents who work not as technicists but as social workers/ engineers who envision a different world with the each word taught as a part of the practice we call literacy. As stated in the preface of the book, the chapters grow out of a symposium held at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), which had focused on anthropological perspectives and the negotiation of language, literacy, and power relations in linguistically and culturally diverse educational contexts. 17 writers, including the editor, pick up the issues intersecting at ethnography and literacy and extend them to the sociopolitical in a powerful research practice which both informs the theories of literacy, ethnographic research methods, and the ideological and political realities which constrain our everyday living, teaching, and learning.