Literacies across educational contexts
Subtitle: mediating learning and teaching
By: edited by Brian V. Street ; foreword by Katherine Schultz ; with 26 contributors
Contributors: Street, Brian V
Publisher: Caslon Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Literacy; Literacy -- Case studies; Literacy -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Case studies; Cross-cultural studies
Description: "International scholars and practitioners apply the principles of the New Literacy Studies, which views literacy as a social practice, to diverse educational contexts. Sixteen case studies explore what it means for students of all ages to learn and teachers to teach across diverse contexts"--Provided by the publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Introduction : new literacy studies and literacies across educational contexts / Brian V. Street; value: "Pedagogy is not enough" : early literacy practices in a South African school / Pippa Stein and Tshidi Mamabolo; value: Communicative practices and participation in school councils in primary schools in the United Kingdom / Sue Cox and Anna Robinson-Pant; value: Multigrade schooling and literacy : linking literacy learning in home, community, and primary school in the Peruvian Amazon / Patricia Ames; value: Breaching the classroom walls : literacy learning across time and space in an elementary school in the United States / Joanne Larson; value: "Sayin' it in a different way" : adolescent literacies through the lens of cultural studies / Bronwen E. Low; value: Bridging life and learning through inquiry and improvisation : literacy practices at a model high school / Rob Simon; value: Putting it out there : revealing Latino visual discourse in the Hispanic Academic Summer program for middle school students / Peter Cowan; value: Literacy and media in secondary schools in the United Kingdom / Joanna Oldham; value: "Where I'm from" : transforming education for language minorities in a public high school in Hawai'i / Kathryn A. Davis, Sarah Kathleen Bazzi, and Hye-sun Cho; value: Project Freire Saturday Literacy Academies : recreating Freire for high school students in Brooklyn / Maryann Cucchiara; value: Adults learning literacy : adult learning theory and the provision of literacy classes in the context of developing societies / Alan Rogers with Md. Aftab Uddin; value: "Not just infatuation" : sexuality and literacy in the age of HIV / Dorinda Welle, Michael Clatts, and Glen Barnard; value: What does "finding out" literacy practices mean? : an exploration of some of the "hard issues" in a college English class tutoring project with Appalachian children / Julie Eastlack Hopson; value: Nontraditional students in higher education : English as an additional language and literacies / Constant Leung and Kimberly Safford; value: There is no place like home : a teacher education perspective on literacies across educational contexts / Jennifer Rowsell and Dorothy Rajaratnam; value: Deconstructing academic practices through self-reflexive pedagogies / Penny Jane Burke and Monika Hermerschmidt