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Education for Literacy.
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Densmore, Kathleen – Urban Review, 1995
Traces the development of critical scholarship in the sociology of education, focusing on its attempts to explain failure for low-income youth. The author also examines contemporary theoretical work in "critical" literacy and three historical instances of when critical literacy was practiced. It is argued that helping at-risk students…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights, Economically Disadvantaged