| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 317 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"Taking hold" of local literacies -- Literacy practices in diverse classroom contexts -- Literacies and knowledges in a changing world order |
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Introduction: the continuing power of the "great divide" / Teresa L. McCarty -- Indigenous accounts of dealing with writing / Elsie Rockwell -- Negotiating for the Hopi way of life through literacy and schooling / Sheilah Nicholas -- Power within: indigenous literacies and teacher empowerment / Teresa L. McCarty -- Seizing academic power: indigenous subaltern voices, metaliteracy, and counternarratives in higher education / Perry Gilmore, David M. Smith -- Julia's "story" of schooling: a borderlands account / Robert Whitman -- Reading, writing, and race: litaracy practices of teachers in diverse classrooms / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Student voice and the media of biliteracy in bi(multi)lingual/multicultural classrooms / Nancy H. Hornberger -- Researching mathematics teaching in bilingual-bicultural classrooms / Janine T. Remillard, Melisa Cahnmann -- Local power construction in a school of socially marginalized students / Antonia Candela -- Literacies, schools, and kinds of people in the new capitalism / James Paul Gee -- Globalization on the border: reimagining economies, identities, and schooling in El Paso / Char Ullman -- (Re)writing inequality: language of crisis implications in California education reform / Christine L. Cain |
| Summary |
This text brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on the negotiation of language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge, discourses, and literacy practices "count." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States
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Minorities -- Education -- United States
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Limited English-proficient students -- Education -- United States
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Educational equalization -- United States
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Educational equalization
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Literacy -- Social aspects
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Minorities -- Education
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCarty, T. L
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| ISBN |
1410613542 |
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9781410613547 |
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9780805846461 |
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0805846468 |
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9780805846478 |
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0805846476 |
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1135621837 |
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9781135621834 |
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1282596403 |
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9781282596405 |
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9786612596407 |
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6612596406 |
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