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Now We Read, We See, We Speak: Portrait of Literacy Development in an Adult Freirean-Based Class


Now We Read, We See, We Speak compellingly captures eight women’s progress toward empowerment through a Freirean-based literacy class in rural El Salvador and, in the process, provides telling lessons for literacy and adult educators around the world.

This book fills a real gap in the educational literature on critical theory and literacy teaching and learning. For the first time, we have a multi-layered description and analysis of a literacy class based on… More >>

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Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds

  • ISBN13: 9780674013599
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No .


Why do some students in the United States make the most of college, while others struggle and look back on years of missed opportunities? What choices can students make, and what can teachers and university leaders do to improve more students’ experiences and help them make the most of their time and monetary investment? And how is greater diversity on campus–cultural, racial, and religious–affecting education? How can students and faculty benefit from differenc… More >>

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Proudly We Speak Your Name: Forty-four Years at Catholic High School, Little Rock

  • ISBN13: 9781935106074
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No .


In April 2009 alumni and friends of Catholic High School for Boys will gather to toast and roast a favorite of the school’s legendary faculty,

Michael Moran, the author of Proudly We Speak Your Name. Only a stoic could complete a reading without a teary-eyed moment or two and many belly laughs. Faculty idiosyncrasies are recalled in this memoir, as are student

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The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom, New Edition

  • ISBN13: 9781595583505
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No .


From the celebrated author of Other People’s Children, a fifth anniversary edition of the pathbreaking collection examining the relationship between language and power in the classroom, with a new introduction.

At a time when children are written off in our schools because they do not speak formal English, and when the class- and race-biased language used to describe those children determines their fate, The Skin That We Speak offers a cutting-edge loo… More >>

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The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom


From the MacArthur Award- winning author of Other People’s Children, a collection that gets to the heart of the relationship between language and power in the classroom. A powerful and sophisticated reminder that words can indeed do as much damage as sticks and stones, The Skin That We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly charged war of idioms—in which “English only” really means standard English only—and presents today’s tea… More >>

The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

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