Power, Resistance, and Literacy – Writing for Social Justice Gorlewski Hardback

Power, Resistance, and LiteracyWriting for Social Justice\nAuthor(s): Julie A. Gorlewski\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781617354069, 978-1617354069\nSynopsis\nStudents in public schools serving poor and working-class students are inundated by the effects of high-stakes examinations. Teachers are demoralized and students suffer substandard curricular and pedagogical experiences. These effects are articulated by students and teachers in the high school that provided the setting for the critical ethnography on which this text is based. Teachers resent being judged on the basis of students performance on standardized assessments. They are deprofessionalized as their roles are oriented toward working-class norms. Students feel alienated by content that is meaningless and test-based pedagogies that are disempowering.\n\nWhile these findings are disturbing, critical theory provides a foundation for seeking.