Literacy in the Library: Negotiating the Spaces Between Order and Desire

by Mark Dressman

This critical ethnography of school libraries contributes to the study of the politics of literacy at the elementary school level as well as provides an interesting case study of border crossing. The book interrogates two accounts of social reproduction and proposes a third. Students at working-poor Chavez Elementary resisted attempts to get them hooked on reading fiction, but while many were socialized to the labor of a piecework economy, many also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897894952
• ISBN13: 9780897894951
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"