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Download full textFalk, Thomas – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2010
Critical scholarship frequently depicts literacy education as an "initiation into passivity." Disconnected from the lives of students and reduced to strategies for scoring points on tests, literacy becomes an exercise in the reproduction of a moral economy of discipline, compliance, and productivity. Yet people also recognize that the modern world…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Federal Legislation, Figurative Language, Criticism
