International collaborations in literacy research and practice
By: edited by Cynthia B. Leung, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Janet C. Richards, University of South Florida, Cynthia A. Lassonde, State University of New York, Oneonta
Series: Literacy, language and learning
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, INC.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781623965662; 9781623965655; 9781623965679
Subjects: Literacy; Education; International cooperation
Table of contents: title: Framing collaborative efforts for literacy / Cynthia B. Leung, Janet C. Richards, and Cynthia A. Lassonde; title: Ethiopia for teachers: A collaborative celebration; title: Of culture and literacy / Laurie J. Curtis; title: United Arab Emirate and U.S. preservice teachers share perspectives in online literature circle discussions / Patience A. Sowa and Cynthia M. Schmidt; title: Reading across continents: creating adolescent literacy leaders in Washington, D.C., Abuja, Nigeria, and Accra, Ghana / Elizabeth V. Primas and Liane Rosenblatt; title: An exploratory inquiry of wordless picture book oral compositions across cultures / Carole Janisch, Xiaoming Liu, Amma Akrofi, and Mary Napoli; title: Getting past didactic instruction: understanding the literacy curriculum for students with developmental disabilities in Tanzania / Angela Stone-MacDonald; title: Chinese adolescents and U.S. teachers meet in a digital story writing workshop / Marylou M. Matoush, Danling Fu, and C. William 'Sandy' Miller; title: Preparing U.S. preservice teachers for literacy instruction through student teaching in New Zealand / Julie Winneur Ankrum and Allan Nail; title: Increasing U.S. inservice teachers' cultural awareness through summer teaching in China / Cheryl M. North and Nancy Rankie Shelton; title: Promoting reading achievement in Malawian primary schools: an international collaboration / Misty Sailors, Henry Chilora, Davie Kaambankadzanja, and James V. Hoffman; title: The Guatemalan literacy project: collaboration among literacy educators / Mayra C. Daniel, Marcia Mondschein, and Lucrecia de Palomo; title: You are one of us: forging the development of dialogic communities of practice in the Bahamas / Gertrude Tinker Sachs; title: Improving elementary school literacy in Mauritius through project ZEP / William L. Edwards, Janet Condy, and Sakil Malik; title: The reading and writing for critical thinking (RWCT) project: working in the Thai jungle with indigenous Myanmar (Burmese) teachers / Janet C. Richards; title: Active learning and critical thinking: a higher education professional development program in Croatia / Sharon B. Kletzien, Vlasta Vizek Vidovi?, and Vi?nja Grozdani?.