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E-book A Voice for Maria Favela : An Adventure in Creative Literacy

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The story behind this book has its origins in some work that I began in 1981, with a group of students classed as requiring ‘Special Education’ – that is to say, students who had spent more than three years in school, but had still not learned to read or write. The events took place at a public school, the Escola Paula Brito, in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro.I had already been teaching in Rocinha since 1977, doing drama with young people. This work had resulted in a play called ‘Where is Beto?’, with words and music created by the students themselves. Throughout 1978 and 1979, I busied myself locally with other similar cultural projects, and it wasn’t until 1980 that I fully committed to teaching at Paula Brito. Between June and December of that year, I attempted to get an initial impression of the school by trying out a number of different activities there: following the progress of a Special Education class, creating a small theatre group, researching the music of the favelas, and observing the well-known games and kinds of play among the children.It was only once I had digested all these different aspects to the school environment and the lives of its students, that in 1981 I felt the need to steer my work onto a more definite path, one with fewer diversions and distractions. I decided to focus on basic literacy. At that time, I was already pretty clear in my own mind about what it meant to ‘become literate’. I felt that I had already achieved a new kind of literacy myself over the course of many years as a novice writer, through the language of the theatre, of the cinema and also of literature. So the great adventure of reading and writing, of helping others to become literate – to be discoverers of the written word, artisans of language – was extremely exciting. It was in this spirit of discovery that I suggested to the Head of the school that I take responsibility for a literacy class. Ideally, I was looking to put together a special class of former students from my recent years on work placement, students said to be incapable of learning, and had therefore been sidelined within their own school. The school at that time badly needed concrete evidence of change. Everyone was so tired of reforms and superstructural developments that the governors of the school district, and of the school itself, accepted my offer and in the process removed a number of the bureaucratic obstacles that might well have got in the way.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

370.1 LEA a

Penerbit

London : Bloomsbury Academic., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

137 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781350247581

Klasifikasi

370.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Philosophy and Theory of Education

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