Josh Lederman's Research Resources Web Page
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing"
-Werner Von Braun
This page contains links to a variety of resources connected to my research topic: the questions of what is at stake over the conflicting definitions of 'literacy' in our culture. Some of these links connect to academic essays, some to videos, some to charts.
What is Literacy?
National Institute for Literacy web page
Here we can see the governments definition of literacy (or lack there of...
Definitions of Literacy on the Web
These represent more common views of what literacy means
James Paul Gee, "The New Literacy Studies and the 'Social Turn'"
Gee is a seminal voice in literacy studies and linguistics
Brian Street, "What's 'new' in New Literacy Studies?"
Together, Gee and Street head up what has become known as NLS, the New Literacy Studies
The Achievement Gaps
Here are some visual representations of the educational issues we face--notice how much or little they have changed since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (2001-Present)
What is at Stake?
Freire's "Banking Concept of Education"
Freire's piece outlines, for me, all of the good to be gained from redefining a multi-layered notion of literacy, as well as the subtle dangers of continuing a dominant, monolithic notion of literacy.
Noam Chomsky debates William F. Buckley:
It's just fun to watch Chomsky
go...
Other Resources
Contains relevant readings annotations with rambling summaries and responses
Examples of Critical Pedagogy (Freirean Philosophy) in Popular African American Culture