Author

Publication

1999 - Westview Press, Boulder, Colo, Colorado

Language

English

Word Count

53,500 words, Guess

Page Count

214 pages

Identifiers

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  • Library of Congress Control Number98229695
  • Goodreads810753

Classifications

  • LCCLC196.5.U6 P78 1999

Description

In Discourse Wars in Gotham-West, Marc Pruyn paints a multi-layered and textured picture of a year-long critical ethnography he conducted of a community-based, Freirean-inspired adult Spanish literacy classroom against the postmodern backdrop of urban, working class Los Angeles. Pruyn engagingly draws us into the lives of one group of adult Latina/o learners recently immigrated as refugees from Central America and Mexico who sought to develop their native language literacy skills. At the center of his detailed study are analyses from critical pedagogy. Foucauldian & poststructuralist thought, Gramscian neo-Marxism, and critical discourse analysis. This work is sure to be of much use to students and scholars in the fields of critical pedagogy, discourse analysis, linguistics, urban studies, immigrant studies and radical social theory.

Subjects

Topics

EducationCase studiesLatin AmericansCritical pedagogyCritical pedagogy -- California -- Los AngelesLatin Americans -- Education -- California -- Los Angeles

Series Statement

  • The edge, critical studies in educational theory

Other Editions

  • Discourse wars in Gotham-West: a Latino immigrant urban tale of resistance & agencyWestview Press1999-01-01
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