Literacy with an Attitude

<p><b>A 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.</b></p><p><b>Winner of the 2010 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association </b></p><p>The 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.</p><p>This tenth-anniversary second edition features eight new chapters and a revised and updated original text.</p>