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Critical Literacy Vs. Reading Programs: Schooling As A Form Of Control, Roberto E. Bahruth
Critical Literacy Vs. Reading Programs: Schooling As A Form Of Control, Roberto E. Bahruth
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
In the United States, despite years of educational research demonstrating the ineffectiveness and harm caused by reading programs based upon a behaviorist paradigm, political mandates of state and federal programs insist upon their continued use. One might conclude that this insistence is born out of ignorance, however, it seems clear that the populations most harmed by these programs are the poor and minorities. Privileged class students are also harmed because of the "literalcy" (shallow "literacy") these programs produce. I discuss the politics of literacy and language programs in the United States and how they serve to oppress as they reproduce …
El "Pentagonismo": Idioma Del Neoliberalismo, Roberto E. Bahruth
El "Pentagonismo": Idioma Del Neoliberalismo, Roberto E. Bahruth
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
Las escuelas represenran instiruciones con un incuestionable potencial progresivo. Sin embargo, en los EUU los centros escolares del Estado están organizados para facilitar un alfabetismo superficial en los ciudadanos, de manera que no estén en condiciones de cuestionar la terminología de la educación, ni eI program a imperialista que se sustenta. Para quicnes, dentro de ese país, estamos comprometidos con una pedagogía crítica, capaz de frenar y revertir la enajenacíon de nuestro pueblo, se hace imprescindible en primer lugar retar Ia terminología tradicional y reemplazarla con un idioma realmenre critico. EI idioma demuestra mucho de las orientaciones ideológicas de los …