Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies

Name: Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies
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The Case of Black Academic Underachievement

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Routledge Research in Education

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In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary capitalist world-system under American hegemony. Mocombe and Tomlin interpret the role of education as an institutional or ideological apparatus for capitalist domination, and examine the sociolinguistic means or pedagogies by which global and local social actors are educated within the capitalist world-system to serve the needs of capital; i.e., capital accumulation. Two specific case studies, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom, are utilized to demonstrate how contemporary educational emphasis on language and literacy parallels the organization of work and contributes to the debate on academic underachievement of black students vis-a-vis their white and Asian counterparts.

Author Biography:

Paul C. Mocombe is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at West Virginia State University and the President/CEO of The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. Carol Tomlin is a former Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. She is now an educational consultant.

Release date Australia

December 18th, 2012

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Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

7 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

196

Series

Routledge Research in Education

Dimensions

152x229x16

ISBN-13

9780415658096

Product ID

20673577

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