Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction: Advocacy, Research, and Education. Paulo Freire and Critical Literacy(ies). Radical Counternarratives in Literacy Research I: Feminist and Queer Theory. Radical Counternarratives in Literacy Research II: Postcolonial Theory and Critical Race Theory. Literacy as Social Practice. Linguistic Studies. Why Social Justice? Ethics for Advocacy Research. The Literate Body. Literacy, Democracy, and Freedom.

About the Author

Meredith Rogers Cherland, Helen Harper

Reviews

"...sets the groundwork for a new generation of researchers and advocates for critical literacy and student empowerment...This book works effectively as a powerful contrast to the push toward so-called ‘scientifically-based’ education research and standardization....Highly Recommended." – CHOICE, August 2007, Vol. 44, No. 11

“This book convincingly and thoroughly makes an argument, and offers conceptual and practical support, for advocacy research in critical literacy education. It represents a brilliant and significant contribution to the field of literacy education.”
—University of Alberta