Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy

Abstract

1. List of Contributors 2. Towards A Critical Sociollogy of Reading Pedagogy: An Introduction (by Luke, Allan) 3. I. The Politics of Pedagogy 4. The Political Economy of Reading Instruction (by Luke, Allan) 5. Writing Pedagogy: Personal Voices, Truth Telling and 'Real' Texts (by Gilbert, Pam) 6. Learning the Literature Lesson: The Limits of the Aesthetic Personality (by Hunter, Ian) 7. Literacy: A Social Skill (by Mey, Jacob L.) 8. II. Reading in Classrooms 9. A Situated Perspective on What Counts as Reading (by Heap, James L.) 10. The Embeddedness of Reading in Classroom Life: Reading as a Situated Process (by Green, Judith L.) 11. Literacy Practices and Social Relations in Classroom Reading Events (by Baker, Carolyn) 12. III. Reconstructing Theory 13. readingS (by McHoul, Alec) 14. Reading 'readingS': Towards a Postmodernist Reading Pedagogy (by Green, Bill) 15. IV. Reading the Social 16. Remarks on Cognitive-Psychological and Critical-Sociological Accounts of Reading (by Freebody, Peter) 17. Discourses and Practices: A Postscript (by Baker, Carolyn) 18. Author Index 19. Subject Index