Reviews for Exam Success

The average rating for Exam Success based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-10 00:00:00 Adewumi Temilade In Literacy Matters (2000), Robert P. Yagelski tells his own and others' literacy narratives in order to explore why literacy matters. Of course, literacy "empowers," he admits, but it is not the economic power that many assume; instead, "literacy represents a kind of power to participate in extraordinarily complex ways in the social, cultural, and political discourses that shape people's lives" (6). Literacy, according to Yagelski, is "an effort to construct a self within ever-shifting discourses in order to participate in those discourses," and is always local, social, and mediated within situations (9-10). Chapter 2 questions the simplistic notions of literacy as completely individual yet somehow standard and a set of basic skills, and as discussed in the deficit model of lacking literacy. Chapter 3 then questions how we talk about individuals in terms of subjects instead of individuals, reducing an individual to his or her gender, race, or class status; instead, we should follow Hourigan in understanding that perhaps one's "self-presentation of gender, race, and class identities" my matter more than simple subject positions (qtd. in 62). Yagelski looks for agency in the contradictions in individuals's constitutions (79). Chapter 6 explores implications for pedagogy, including that literacy, not literature, should be at the center of pedagogy, and that we need to understand and be informed by literacy as a local act and practice (164).

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-13 00:00:00 Robert Huckleberry Capitalism, slavery, and racism Can Education really be considered assimilation? What is the difference? Can there be education without assimilation? Multicultural education is assimilation in that American Education is central. Anti racist Education doesn't require assimilation.