[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1243] new resource

From: Janet Isserlis (Janet_Isserlis@brown.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 19:09:41 EST


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Dear all,

FYI - a new resource has become available, and is likely to be of 
interest to people on this list (and I hope you'll  share it with 
other colleagues/friends, as well).  Information follows, and/or go 
directly to Heinemann [website below]  for more information and an 
excerpt in PDF.  Many of you are familiar with Rachel Martin's work 
and will likely want to check this out, too

best,

Janet Isserlis

> >>Listening Up: Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers and Students

>http://www.heinemann.com/code/template.ghc?direct=search_titles&dw=vi 
>ew&book_id=1883



> >>Listening Up offers a personal look at the Freirean ideas that guided
> >>Rachel Martin's early years of teaching, and the theories and classroom
> >>experiences that urged her to take a second look.
>
> >>The ideas Martin draws on help us think in new ways about how power
> >>works. They provide the possibility of seeing how teachers' own needs and
> >>desires might find a place in classroom inquiry, as we come to see how
> >>our relationship to domination is a matter neither of complete
> >>acquiescence nor absolute resistance. Martin uses poststructural and
> >>psychoanalytic ideas in accessible ways--and shows how they can be put to
> >>work in daily ways to create social change. While the goal of "meaning
> >>making" has become a guidepost in radical teaching, Martin aims in the
> >>direction of a pedagogy that places her in a more genuine position of
> >>"co-learner" as, together with her students, she questions how those
> >>meanings are made.
> >>
> >>Later chapters address the "What do I do on Monday morning?" question.
> >>Full of practical ideas, they highlight the implications that notions of
> >>multiple voices and identities have for the teaching of writing and the
> >>questions they raise about the teaching of reading. Martin also describes
> >>community publishing projects in which she has been involved (with
> >>neighborhood residents in Boston, welfare activists, and others.) Poor
> >>and working-class people are seldom able to get their written visions and
> >>strategies into print, to become part of the way the world is described
> >>and possibilites for change are considered. Martin argues that community
> >>publishing does that, as it also links self-determination to
> >>self-definition.
> >>
> >>Martin puts herself on the line by taking a revealing look at her own
> >>experiences inside and outside the classroom. As a result, Listening Up
> >>comes across as a warm invitation to join the author in some practical
> >>theorizing.
> >
> >In addition to speaking directly to teachers of youth and adult literacy,
> >and College Writing, Listening Up is geared to college courses in:
> >>Ed. Foundations
> >>Cultural Studies
> >>Language and Literacy
> >>Curriculum Theory
> >>Teacher Research
> >>Narrative Research Methods
> >>Critical Theory
> >>Feminist Pedagogies



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