The Garland Science website is no longer available to access and you have been automatically redirected to CRCPress.com.

INSTRUCTORS

All instructor resources (*see Exceptions) are now available on our Instructor Hub. Your GarlandScience.com instructor credentials will not grant access to the Hub, but existing and new users may request access here. The student resources previously accessed via GarlandScience.com are no longer available to existing or new users.

*Exceptions:

Resources to the following titles can be found at www.wwnorton.com »

Molecular Biology of the Cell
Molecular Biology of the Cell: Problems Book
Essential Cell Biology
The Biology of Cancer
Case Studies in Cancer
Janeway's Immunobiology
The Immune System
Case Studies in Immunology
The Molecules of Life
Living in a Microbial World

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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

1st Edition

Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin

Paperback
$47.56

Hardback
$148.75

eBook
$50.36

eBook Rental
from $27.98

Routledge
Published May 31, 2017
Reference - 196 Pages - 2 B/W Illustrations
ISBN 9781138107960 - CAT# Y336957
Series: Routledge Research in Education

For Instructors Request Inspection Copy

For Librarians Available on Taylor & Francis eBooks >>

Select Format: Quantity:

was $55.95

USD^$47^.56

SAVE ~$8.39 on each

Currently out of stock

Add to Wish List

FREE Standard Shipping!

Preview

Close Preview

Summary

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.