Educating for Language and Literacy Diversity [electronic resource] : Mobile Selves /
Prinsloo, M.editor.
Stroud, C.editor.
Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls. This book examines everyday forms of talk and writing in relation to standardised forms and schooling expectations to suggest ways forward in educational discourse.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Studying Diversity in Education Settings; 1 Classroom Constructions of Language and Literacy Activity; 2 What is Quechua Literacy for? Ideological Dilemmas in Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Peruvian Andes; 3 Growth of Communicative Competence in a Dynamic African Context: Challenges for Developmental Assessment; 4 Moving between Ekasi and the Suburbs: the Mobility of Linguistic Resources in a South African De(re)segregated School
5 Shades, Voice and Mobility: Remote Communities Resist and Reclaim Linguistic and Educational Practices in EthiopiaPart II: Teaching and Research with Diverse Students; 6 Marginalised Knowledges and Marginalised Languages for Epistemic Access to Piaget and Vygotsky's Theories; 7 Reassembling the Literacy Event in Shirley Brice Heath's Ways with Words; 8 Recontextualising Research, Glocalising Practice; 9 Xenophobia and Constructions of the Other; 10 Bodies of Language and Languages of Bodies: South African Puzzles and Opportunities; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls. This book examines everyday forms of talk and writing in relation to standardised forms and schooling expectations to suggest ways forward in educational discourse.
Language and education.
Literacy.
Language and languages—Study and teaching.
Sociolinguistics.
Language Education.
Literacy.
Language Teaching.
Sociolinguistics.