From Literature To Cultural Literacy

Author : Naomi Segal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137429704
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Literature to Cultural Literacy written by Naomi Segal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

Author : E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394758439
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.

Author : Carol D. Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Literacy, and Learning written by Carol D. Lee and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can educators improve the literacy skills of students in historically underachieving urban high schools? In this timely book, the author offers a theoretical framework for the design of instruction that is both culturally responsive and subject-matter specific, rooted in examples of the implementation of the Cultural Modeling Project. Presented here, the Cultural Modeling Project draws on competencies students already have in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) discourse and hip-hop culture to tackle complex problems in the study of literature. Using vivid descriptions from real classrooms, the author describes how AAVE supported student learning and reasoning; how students in turn responded to the reform initiative; and how teachers adapted the cultural framework to the English/language arts curriculum. While the focus is on literacy and African American students, the book examines the functions of culture in facilitating learning and offers principles for leveraging cultural knowledge in support of subject matter specific to academic learning. This much-awaited book offers important lessons for researchers, school district leaders, and local practitioners regarding the complex ways that cultural knowledge is constructed and plays out in classroom life, in the life of a school, and in the life of a whole-school reform initiative.

Author : Diane Zahler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074347578X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Test Your Cultural Literacy IQ written by Diane Zahler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical handbook for students and trivia buffs utilizes a host of multiple-choice questions to test readers' knowledge of American and world history, geography, science, art and architecture, music, literature, myth and religion, quotations, current events, and other topics. Reprint.

Author : Ralph Alexander Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062155
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy & Arts Education written by Ralph Alexander Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen experts in the visual arts, literature, music, dance, and theater responded to the arguments of E. D. Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know", focusing particularily on his alarm at the serious slippage that has occurred in the background knowledge and information prerequisite for effective communication. These authorities addressed two questions: (1) What it means for people to be "literate" (that is, able to understand communications and have relevant experiences) in various art forms? (2) What sorts of context should such individuals bring to their encounters with works in these art forms and what would that imply for arts education? The contributing specialists are E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Harry S. Broudy, Jerrold Levinson, Patti P. Gillespie, Walter H. Clark, Jr., John Adkins Richardson, Francis Sparshott, Clifton Olds, Marcia Muelder Eaton, Ronald Berman, Lucian Krukowski, Michael J. Parsons, and David J. Elliot. (KM)

Author : Bonnie Braendlin
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813010960
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Power/cultural Literacy written by Bonnie Braendlin and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1991 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the authors of these essays, the acts and artifacts of popular culture, including film and television, belong within the canon of high art. A. Ann Kaplan, prominent scholar-critic of cultural literacy, writes in the lead essay that the field of cultural studies may provide the educational direction necessary for a postmodern curriculum.

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3Q/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no literate American should be without. Now in this newly revised and updated edition, the authors provide a comprehensive look at cultural literacy for the nineties. New entries reflect suggestions from hundreds of readers. The dictionary takes into account the growing consensus over the specifics of multiculturalism, the political and geographic changes in the world, and the new ideas and terms that flow constantly from scientific research and technological development. Twenty-three sections, each alphabetically arranged, cover every major area of knowledge. Within each section, hundreds of individual entries identify ideas, events, and individuals, explaining their significance in our culture and placing them in context. More than 250 maps, charts, and illustrations provide information that cannot be conveyed by words alone. A complete index enables quick reference to any topic. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy challenges us to find out more about what we know and helps us make sense of what we read, hear, and learn. It is a "must have" book for every home.

Author : Naomi Segal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137429704
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Literature to Cultural Literacy written by Naomi Segal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569562192
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know.

Author : Bonnie Braendlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788813010966
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Power/cultural Literacy written by Bonnie Braendlin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: