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Overview
Literacy with an Attitude references sources by other published authors within the field of education, including Jean Anyon and James Gee.

Synopsis
From chapters thirteen to twenty, Finn offers solutions to the problem he poses in the text’s earlier chapters. He bases much of his proposed solution on the work of Paulo Freire. Friere suggests that problems should be diagnosed and eliminated through activism (Freire Institute). Based upon this, Finn recommends Frieian motivation in the classroom, or the idea of teachers teaching students to stand up for themselves (Finn Ch. 16).

Impact
Literacy with an Attitude has been accepted by others in the education field, including Donna E. Alvermann, a professor of Literacy at the Georgia, who has served as the director of the National Reading Research Center, and has published extensively on literacy and popular culture (Alvermann). Alvermann referenced Finn’s discussion of “domesticating education” in her article “Reading adolescents’ reading identities: Looking back to see ahead,” to point out the flaws of the “deprivation approach” an approach to literacy that suggests struggling readers are disadvantaged (Alvermann 2001 p. 680-681). She says that when students are thought of this way, they often receive domesticating education and social inequality. For that reason, the label “struggling reader” should be avoided.