Download or read book Literacy with an Attitude Second Edition written by Patrick J. Finn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Literacy with an Attitude written by Patrick J. Finn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate plea 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. Strategies for reaching and teaching these children are presented.
Download or read book Economic Literacy written by Frederick S. Weaver and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wit and verve, Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory and engagingly describes the organization and performance of the U.S. economy. Its combination of theory and description is essential for understanding debates about current affairs, penetrating the literature of economics, and reflecting on the usefulness and limits of economic analysis. Updated throughout, the second edition includes new discussions of social security, tax reform, surging petroleum prices, and the economic effects of the Iraq war and other international issues.
Download or read book Literacy with an Attitude written by Patrick J. Finn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 be better able to understand, demand, and protect their civil, political, and social rights. This tenth anniversary, second edition features seven new chapters, a new appendix, and a revised and updated original text. Praise for the first edition Finn s writing is so personal, passionate, urgent, and he was speaking, not writing, it seemed, directly to me I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is concerned about the failure of schools to educate all our citizens into a powerful democratic discourse. John M. Watkins, Anthropology and Education Quarterly Finn s approach is creative and effective [The book] is very important and deserves to be read by teachers by parents, and by concerned citizens. LACMF, Literacy Across the Curriculumedia Focus "This book makes the reader think. It presents a clear account of the history of literacy which on the surface is familiar; however, the author's ability to define, compare, and contrast empowering education/powerful literacy reframes issues and challenges all complacency. His argument for teaching literacy with an attitude is compelling. It demands evaluation of the status quo and commitment to rethinking schools, literacy definitions, and instructional procedures for children as well as training for preservice and inservice teachers. It suggests productive areas of research that could contribute further understanding of the issues. And, it makes a reader think: What if?" -- Mary Anne Doyle, University of Connecticut
Download or read book Leave Your Attitude at the Door written by Amy Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding and troubleshooting placements in the field for teacher candidates can be challenging, frustrating, and sometimes amazing. This book is a compilation of the experiences of three clinical instructors at the University of Central Arkansas. They share stories of their challenges and their victories as well as ideas and suggestions for creating a successful experience for candidates in their field experiences. The material in the book reflects experiences in both undergraduate and nontraditional graduate programs. If you have struggled with creating successful field experiences, you may enjoy reading this book. Misery loves company.
Download or read book Economic Literacy written by Frederick S. Weaver and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its third edition, Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with An Attitude, explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. While covering the fundamentals of the discipline, the author also includes a wide range of new material focusing on the structure, causes and results of the 'Great Recession'. From microeconomics and macroeconomics to the composition of international and domestic economies, Economic Literacy also makes the key distinction between economics as an academic discipline and the economy as a practical reality. By analyzing this crucial difference, the book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture. Using this approach, readers will be enabled to understand both current affairs and professional economics literature, making this book uniquely beneficial for students both practically and theoretically. Never grim, often witty, and frequently insightful into our turbulent financial times, Economic Literacy's third edition is a must for students of economics everywhere.
Download or read book Content Area Literacy written by John E. Readence and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Attitudes and Language written by Colin Baker and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original research shows how attitude to bilingualism is conceptually distinct from attitude to a specific language. A piece of research in Wales investigates the origins of language attitudes in individual differences and in environmental attributes.
Download or read book Keep Your Attitude I Have My Own written by Jim Davis and published by Ravette Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's rude...It's crude...It's Garfield's attitude. Everyone's entitled to Garfield's not-so-humble opinion, so we set the cat free to speak his mind in this collection of themed art aimed at the boys'/young men's market. But hey...You know your market, so if the gag fits, share it! Young women and girls have attitude too. Duh! You got a problem with that? ILLUSTRATIONS colour throughout
Download or read book Teacher Education with an Attitude written by Patrick J. Finn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores collaborative, democratic ways of preparing teachers to educate urban, working-class students.
Download or read book What If Everybody Did That written by Ellen Javernick and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Text first published in 1990 by Children's Press, Inc."
Download or read book Science Literacy written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an institution, science enables people to both engage in the construction of new knowledge as well as use information to achieve desired ends. Access to scienceâ€"whether using knowledge or creating itâ€"necessitates some level of familiarity with the enterprise and practice of science: we refer to this as science literacy. Science literacy is desirable not only for individuals, but also for the health and well- being of communities and society. More than just basic knowledge of science facts, contemporary definitions of science literacy have expanded to include understandings of scientific processes and practices, familiarity with how science and scientists work, a capacity to weigh and evaluate the products of science, and an ability to engage in civic decisions about the value of science. Although science literacy has traditionally been seen as the responsibility of individuals, individuals are nested within communities that are nested within societiesâ€"and, as a result, individual science literacy is limited or enhanced by the circumstances of that nesting. Science Literacy studies the role of science literacy in public support of science. This report synthesizes the available research literature on science literacy, makes recommendations on the need to improve the understanding of science and scientific research in the United States, and considers the relationship between scientific literacy and support for and use of science and research.
Download or read book Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom Grades K 5 written by Douglas Fisher and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach with optimum impact to foster deeper expressions of literacy Whether through direct instruction, guided instruction, peer-led and independent learning—every student deserves a great teacher, not by chance, but by design. In this companion to Visible Learning for Literacy, Fisher, Frey, and Hattie show you how to use learning intentions, success criteria, formative assessment and feedback to achieve profound instructional clarity. Chapter by chapter, this acclaimed author team helps put a range of learning strategies into practice, depending upon whether your K–5 students are ready for surface, deep, or transfer levels of understanding.
Download or read book Teaching Literacy in Third Grade written by Janice F. Almasi and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third-grade classroom is a beehive of activity, in which young readers transition between emergent and more advanced levels of literacy. This expertly written guide brings to life the rewards and challenges of teaching third graders and helps teachers differentiate instruction for diverse learners. Vividly portraying a week in a highly motivating classroom, the authors present easy-to-use ideas and activities for building fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and more. Illustrations, reproducibles, grade-specific resources, and planning tips will make this handy book a boon to third-grade teachers every day of the year.
Download or read book Reading Writing and Rising Up written by Linda Christensen and published by Rethinking Schools. This book was released on 2000 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give students the power of language by using the inspiring ideas in this very readable book.
Download or read book Literacy and Motivation written by Ludo Verhoeven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on how to create a society of "engaged readers" - readers who are socially interactive, strategic, and motivated. Provides a state-of-the-art review of research on promoting reading in relation to reading instruction.
Download or read book Leap Into Literacy written by Kathleen Gould Lundy and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers lesson plans and practical suggestions for stimulating active learning and creating learning opportunities in new ways. For teachers of years 4-12.
