Becoming political, too: new readings and writings on the politics of literacy education

Introduction: Why Become Political?

Sect. 1. How Is Literacy Defined?

1. What Is Literacy? / James Paul Gee

2. Turn, Turn, Turn: Language Education, Politics, and Freedom at the Turn of Three Centuries / Patrick Shannon

3. Multiple Literacies and Critical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society / Douglas Kellner

Sect. 2. What Is Read and Written?

4. Genre and the Changing Contexts for English Language Arts / Gunther Kress

5. Street Scripts: African American Youth Writing About Crime and Violence / Jabari Mahiri

6. And I Want to Thank You Barbie: Barbie as a Site for Cultural Interrogation / Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

Sect. 3. Who Is Considered Literate?

7. Artist as Public Intellectual / Carol Becker

8. "What's My Name?": A Politics of Literacy in the Latter Half of the 20th Century in America / Patrick Shannon

9. Empowerment as a Pedagogy of Possibility / Roger I. Simon

Sect. 4. How Is Literacy Taught?

10. Putting Language Back into Language Arts: When the Radical Middle Meets the Third Space / Kris Gutierrez, Patricia Baquedano-Lopez and Myrna Gwen Turner

11. Every Step You Take / Patrick Shannon

12. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Politics of What Works / Patrick Shannon

13. If You Ain't Got the ABCs / Patrick Shannon

14. What Is to Be Done? / Rick Ayers

Sect. 5. What Is Possible in Literacy Education?

15. Social Formations and the Politics of Literacy Education: Confronting the Stacked Deck of Opportunity / Eric J. Weiner

16. Get Ghetto on Us: Discourse and Possibility in English Classrooms / Dana Salter

17. Phish Is!: A Metaphor for Freedom for All Phans / Anne Slonaker

18. Reflexive Agency: Looking Back to Move Forward / Lisa Burley Maras

19. Identity and Difference in Textbooks and Life / Gabriella Mendez

20. What's a Fellow to Do?: Family Literacy at This Time in This Place / Patrick Shannon.