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Literacy and Power

Paperback • 2009 • English

Literacy and Power

By Hilary Janks

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About the book

Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education - domination (power), access, diversity, design - foreground one over the other, but are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create possibilities for redesign and social action that serve a social justice agenda. She examines the theory underpinning each orientation, and devel...Show more

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ISBN

9780415999632

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Literacy and Power

Format

Paperback

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