Bakhtin Primer

by Carolyn M. Shields

The Bakhtin Primer offers a truly new and innovative approach to leading and reforming schools. It delves into some of Bakhtin's most salient concepts - chronotope, polyphony and heteroglossia, dialogue and dialogism, and carnival - and presents them as the basis for a comprehensive reform agenda - one that focuses on high levels of student achievement and on socially just and inclusive educational practice. The primer demonstrates the relevance of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820481882
• ISBN13: 9780820481883
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"