Ursula A. Kelly draws on radical theories of literacy, culture, identity and pedagogy to frame the culture of pedagogy as it relates to human desire. Examples from (auto)biography, classroom practices, and popular media provide the means by which the author highlights some of the pedagogical dilemmas facing literacy practices which often work to silence the cultural politics of identity and desire.
A consideration of traditional and dominant notions of literacy education and schooling from the perspective of contemporary cultural ideologies such as feminism and poststructuralism. Kelly uses examples from her own experience, classroom practices and popular media materials such as To Sir with Love.
