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“The ideas and reflections
that come with each
chapter guide teachers
and students to specific
roles and responsibilities
that generate respect and
hope...”
—From the Foreword
by Shirley Brice
Heath, Stanford
University
Socially Responsible Literacy
Teaching Adolescents for Purpose and Power
Paula M. Selvester, professor of teacher education, School of
Education, California State University, Chico, and Deborah G.
Summers, professor of secondary adolescent literacy and director
of the School of Education at California State University, Chico.
Foreword by Shirley Brice Heath
The authors draw on the voices of adolescent readers to
discover how teachers can encourage their students to explore
their identities, face injustices, and contribute to their communities.
Readers learn how to incorporate the core issues of a
socially responsible pedagogy into their own curricula to support
strong literacy skills across the content areas. Each chapter
includes reflection questions that move the reader toward
personal and professional development, along with classroom
applications that provide specific strategies and ideas for
engaging literacy projects.
This dynamic book: • Outlines a socially responsible pedagogy
that will motivate even the most disengaged students •
Recognizes the importance of explicitly addressing issues of
power and identity • Examines effective school-wide models
that promote a climate of responsibility.
Nov 2012/208 pp./PB, $29.95/5372-9/HC, $65/5373-6
Language and Literacy Series
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“Provides insights about
how we must focus on
literacy in order to make a
real difference in the lives
of students.”
—Linda B. Gambrell,
Clemson University
“Should be required
reading for anyone who
cares about the lives of
children and the health of
our society.”
—Kyle Zimmer,
President and CEO,
First Book
Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance
Poverty, Literacy, and the Development of
Information Capital
Susan B. Neuman, professor of Educational Studies at the
University of Michigan, and has served as the U.S. Assistant
Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
Donna C. Celano, assistant professor of Communication at La
Salle University in Philadelphia.
“Groundbreaking and sobering...a must-read for anyone who
cares about equal opportunity.”
—Eugenia Kemble, Executive Director,
Albert Shanker Institute
This book takes you inside two communities with drastically
different economic resources to provide powerful insights into
the role that literacy can play in giving low-income students
a fighting chance. Over the course of a 10-year investigation,
the authors of this important new work came to understand
that the disparity between affluence and poverty had created
a knowledge gap—far more important than mere achievement
scores—with serious implications for students’ economic
prosperity and social mobility. At the heart of this knowledge
gap is the limited ability of students from poor communities to
develop information capital.
Sep 2012/176 pp./PB, $29.95/5358-3/HC, $64/5359-0
Also by Susan Neuman
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Changing the Odds for Children at Risk
Seven Essential Principles of Educational Programs
That Break the Cycle of Poverty
240 pp./PB, $23.95/5048-3 the series on school reform
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