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Author Knobel, Michele.

Title Everyday literacies : students, discourse, and social practice / Michele Knobel
Published New York : P. Lang, 1999

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Description x, 274 pages ; 23 cm
Series Counterpoints ; vol. 80
Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 80
Contents 1. Language education in new times -- 2. Researching D/discourses -- 3. Nicholas -- 4. Jacques -- 5. Layla -- 6. Hannah -- 7. Doing school -- 8. D/discourse research and education
Summary This book is - in part - an introduction to research procedures that enable researchers and educators to identify and examine complex language and social practices enacted in young people's everyday lives. In the process, the actual lived experiences of four young adolescents in their final year of primary school are narrated, generating substantive content that speaks directly to the issues that lie behind this book: namely, what is the relationship between school learning and students' everyday lives, and what night an effective relationship between them look like? These questions are asked against a backdrop of national government pushes for literacy standards-setting and benchmarking in Australia and elsewhere
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-268) and index
Subject Language and education -- Australia -- Case studies.
Sociolinguistics -- Australia -- Case studies.
Students -- Australia -- Language -- Case studies.
LC no. 97044506
ISBN 0820439703