Reading Poverty

by Patrick Shannon

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"Poverty has everything to do with schooling-how it is theorized, how it is organized, how it runs." So says author Patrick Shannon in this provocative look at how social, political, and economic contexts inform the literacy education field. Here we see how competing representations of poverty underlie our assumptions about IQ testing, textbook content, national standards, standardized achievement tests, volunteerism, school/business partnerships,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0325000174

ISBN13:9780325000176

Release Date:March 1998

Publisher:Heinemann Educational Books

Length:230 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Kindergarten to Grade 8

Related Subjects

Education Education & Reference Education Theory Educational Philosophy Elementary Education Foreign Language Study & Reference Instruction Methods Pedagogy Philosophy & Social Aspects Reform & Policy Schools & Teaching Words, Language & Grammar

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