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Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix

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Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix - Bigum, Chris, and Knobel, Michele, and Lankshear, Colin
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This revised edition of Literacy as Snake Oil further investigates and critiques the commodification of literacy and education. Since the publication of the first edition, schools in the U.S. have been targeted even more as a market for private companies seeking to profit from the surveillance of NCLB (No Child Left Behind). Three chapters have been added: one that deals with the reproduction of racialized spaces during a textbook adoption, an analysis of America's Choice by a classroom teacher, and an analysis of the U.K ...

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Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix 2007, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820495439

2nd Revised edition

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