Literary Practices As Social Acts: Power, Status, and Cultural Norms in the Classroom

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ISBN: 9780805836776 | 0805836772
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Copyright: 7/1/2001

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Examines how the social and cultural contexts of classroom and community share four classroom practices involving literature -- read aloud, peer-led literature discussions, teacher-led literature discussions, & independent reading.

Preface

Foreword

I Contexts

(56)

The Social Politics and Performance of Literature

(16)

The Study

(6)

Literacy as Social Practice

(9)

A Social Geography of the Classroom and Surrounding Community

(38)

The Focal Students

(23)

Social Class and Race at Emerson School and its Surrounding Community

(7)

Literacy Learning in the District and School

(6)

II Literary Practices

(114)

Enacting Classroom Culture Through the Ritual of Read-Aloud: What Do We Have in Common?

(26)

The Classroom Culture: Social and Interpretive Expectations

(9)

Claiming Community: The Collective Dimension

(10)

Contradicting Community: Boys on the Margins

(4)

Performing Read Aloud: What Do We Have in Common?

(1)

Negotiating Classroom Culture in Peer-Led Literature Discussions: What Are Our Social Roles?

(34)

Differential Status and Power Within the Classroom Culture

(9)

Peer-Led Discussions

(2)

Achieving Social and Interpretive Power

(8)

Interrupting Social and Interpretive Power

105

(11)

Performing Peer-Led Literature Discussions: What are our Social Roles?

116

(3)

Probing Cultural Norms in Teacher-Led Discussions: Why Do We Believe What We Believe?

119

(32)

Cultural Critique

122

(15)

Resistant Readings

137

(8)

Refining the Meaning of Interpretive Competence

145

(4)

Performing the Teacher-Led Discussions: Why Do We Believe What We Believe?

149

(2)

Appropriating Cultural Norms Through Independent Reading: What Will We Accept, Reject, or Reinvent?

151

(20)

Social Discourses of Protection and Desire

153

(1)

Gendered Readings in the Local and Larger Culture

154

(3)

Subcultural Capital in the Classroom: Status and Popular Culture

157

(3)

Social Discourses Beyond the Classroom: Appropriation and Subversion

160

(3)

Performing Independent Reading: What Will We Accept, Reject, or Reinvent?

163

(8)

III Reflections and Implications for Pedagogy

171

(11)

Literary Practices as Social Acts

173

(9)

Shifting Practices and Literary Meanings

174

(2)

The Social Politics of Literary Culture

176

(3)

The Teacher's Role: Implications for Pedagogy

179

(3)

Appendix Methodology

182

(13)

References

195

(10)

Author Index

205

(4)

Subject Index

209

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Literary Practices As Social Acts: Power, Status, and Cultural Norms in the Classroom

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