Critical Literacy, Schooling, and Social Justice

"Allan Luke's work has been a guiding light that will continue to provide insight and inspiration for generations to come."

--Hilary Janks, Emerita Professor, School of Education, Wits University, South Africa

"This collection will make a profound and unique contribution to education from one of the world's truly great and generous scholars. Allan Luke's work has changed the ways in which generations of teachers and researchers understand the politics of literacy, schooling and pedagogy showing us how educational injustice is produced and how we might actively work against it. Across decades of research Allan Luke has demonstrated how literacy classrooms typically privilege the powerful. Through his analyses of the ways in which texts and other discursive practices work to exclude and marginalise children in relation to their gender, race and class, he has troubled the easy assumptions about the empowering properties of literacy education and forced us to think beyond our comfort zones. His sharp critique is coupled with an alternative vision for how education might be more positive and productive. This volume will be a wonderful gift to future generations of educators and educational researchers alike."

--Barbara Comber, Research Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia