Using both scholarly and student work, Bleich seeks to show that the relationship between language and literacy should be understood in partnership with community, society, and politics. Traditionally, he argues, language and literature have been conceived—in the classroom and in academy—without consideration of sexism, racism, and classism. The Double Perspective approaches teaching, language, and literacy with several considerations in mind: the social psychology of men, which exerts undue influence on everyone’s education; the conception of knowledge now offered by feminist epistemologists; and the social conceptions of language and knowledge contributed by G. H. Mead, L. S. Vygotsky, Ludwig Fleck, Deborah Tannen, and Shirley Heath. Teachers wishing to enhance the social authority of education will find this book a politically and ideologically progressive study.
347 pp. 1993. College. ISBN 0-8141-1223-4.
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