TY - BOOK AU - Hourigan,Maureen M. TI - Literacy as social exchange: intersections of class, gender, and culture T2 - SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning SN - 0585036462 AV - LC151 .H68 1994eb U1 - 370.19/2/0973 20 PY - 1994/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Literacy KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Educational anthropology KW - Critical pedagogy KW - Multicultural education KW - EDUCATION KW - Philosophy & Social Aspects KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Education, Special Topics KW - hilcc KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index N2 - Annotation; Hourigan examines the intersection of culture and literacy education, in particular the roles that class, race, ethnicity, and gender play in students' learning to negotiate the conventions of academic discourse. She argues that recent literary scholarship has tended to isolate class, gender, and culture as discrete, marginalizing factors, but that such isolation may unintentionally silence voices from non- Western, non-mainstream cultures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=6119 ER -