SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 65) education LITErACY WITH AN ATTITuDE, SECOND EDITION Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest Patrick J. Finn A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give workingclass children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive. 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 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 , APRIl • 300 pp $24.95 pb 978-1-4384-2806-2 $70.00 hc 978-1-4384-2805-5 e 65 www.sunypress.edu Patrick J. Finn is Associate Professor Emeritus of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Finn was named the Robert F. and Augusta Finkelstein Memorial Lecturer for Fall 2008 at Adelphi University. He is the coeditor (with Mary E. Finn) of Teacher Education with an Attitude: Preparing Teachers to Educate Working-Class Students in Their Collective Self-Interest, also published by SUNY Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61911 http://www.sunypress.edu
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