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Words in the wilderness : critical literacy in the borderlands

Title
Words in the wilderness : critical literacy in the borderlands / Stephen Gilbert Brown ; foreword by Gary A. Olson.
Author
Brown, Stephen Gilbert, 1949-
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.

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Description
xi, 229 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Using the author's personal account of his time teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska, Words in the Wilderness draws together individual experience and difficult abstract theory."--Jacket.
Series Statement
SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s
Uniform Title
SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.
Subject
  • Brown, Stephen Gilbert, 1949-
  • Athapascan Indians > Education > Alaska
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Literacy
  • Teachers > Alaska > Biography
  • literacy
  • Athapascan Indians > Education
  • Teachers
  • Kritische Pädagogik
  • Leseunterricht
  • Alaska
  • Alaska
  • Indianer
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.
Contents
How I came to be a bush teacher -- Calibans of the contact zone: resistance and marginality in the borderlands -- The bush teacher as cultural imperialist -- Beyond the contact zone: theorizing the dialogic classroom -- Adventures in cultural tourism: foxfire and the fetishization of the authentic -- Decomposing the canon: alter/native narratives from the borderlands -- Teaching the cultural conflicts: toward a literacy of resistance.
ISBN
  • 0791444058
  • 9780791444054
  • 0791444066
  • 9780791444061
LCCN
99038732
OCLC
  • ocm41977151
  • 41977151
  • SCSB-964474
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library