This book focuses on how ideologies of literacy influence literacy instruction and bilingual
education policies. While classroom teachers in both English and other languages are given a
wealth of curriculum guides and texts and are coached and trained as to how to best teach their
subjects issues of policy ideology or politics are rarely engaged or explored. The Literacy
Curriculum and Bilingual Education offers a critical look at how literacy is defined by whom
and for what purposes - illustrating not only how ideology influences policy and curriculum
but how our own ideologies relate to curriculum and teaching. Utilizing critical theory this
book demonstrates how functional cultural progressive and critical ideologies - informed by
particular social political and historical contexts - develop and situate policies for
literacy programs and bilingual education.
