Literary Practices as Social Acts: Power, Status and Cultural Norms in the Classroom

Literary Practices as Social Acts: Power, Status and Cultural Norms in the Classroom
ISBN-10
0805836772
ISBN-13
9780805836776
Category
Education
Pages
213
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Cynthia J. Lewis

Description

This book examines the social codes and practices that shape the literary culture of a combined fifth/sixth-grade classroom. It considers how the social and cultural contexts of classroom and community affect four classroom practices involving literature--read aloud, peer-led literature discussions, teacher-led literature discussions, and independent reading--with a focus on how these practices are shaped by discourse and rituals within the classroom and by social codes and cultural norms beyond the classroom. This book's emphasis on intermediate students is particularly important, given the dearth of studies in the field of reading education that focus on readers at the edge of adolescence. At last, a book that explores the subtleties and ideological underpinnings of four common literacy practices in literature-based reading programs: read-alouds, peer-led literature discussions, teacher-led literature discussions, and independent readings. This book will change the way literacy teacher educators think about these practices. Just as importantly, it will provide them with concrete examples of how the social politics of classroom discourse simultaneously shape, and are shaped by, s

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