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In:Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading
Edited by Carolyn Baker and Allan Luke
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 19] 1991
► pp. vii–viii

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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

Judith L. Green

Literacy Practices and Social Relations in Classroom Reading Events161

III. Reconstructing Theory

readingS191

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