Table of contents
List of Contributorsix
Towards A Critical Sociollogy of Reading Pedagogy: An Introductionxi
I. The Politics of Pedagogy
The Political Economy of Reading Instruction3
Writing Pedagogy: Personal Voices, Truth Telling and ‘Real’ Texts27
Learning the Literature Lesson: The Limits of the Aesthetic Personality47
Literacy: A Social Skill83
II. Reading in Classrooms
A Situated Perspective on What Counts as Reading103
The Embeddedness of Reading in Classroom Life: Reading as a Situated Process141
Literacy Practices and Social Relations in Classroom Reading Events161
III. Reconstructing Theory
Reading ‘readingS’: Towards a Postmodernist Reading Pedagogy211
IV. Reading the Social
Remarks on Cognitive-Psychological and Critical-Sociological Accounts of Reading239
Discourses and Practices: A Postscript257
Author Index269
Subject Index275
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