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Title Portraits of literacy across families, communities, and schools : intersections and tensions / edited by Jim Anderson [and others]
Published Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : illustrations
Contents Portraits of literacy across families, communities, and schools : an introduction / Maureen Kendrick [and others] -- Guiding lights : siblings as literacy teachers in a multilingual community / Eve Gregory -- Literacy diversity : understanding and responding to the textual tapestries of home, school, and community / Trevor H. Cairney -- Working and learning with families, communities, and schools : a critical case study / Jim Anderson, Suzanne Smythe, and Jon Shapiro -- Single mother's journey of rediscovery / Stacey Cody -- Family literacy : listen to what the families have to say / Linda M. Phillips and Heather L. Sample -- Voices from the field : practitioner perspectives on issues in family literacy / Ruth Hayden and Maureen Sanders -- "Down, up, and round" : setting children up as readers and writers in South African classrooms / Mastin Prinsloo and Pippa Stein -- Chameleon character of multilingual literacy portraits : re-searching in "heritage" language places and spaces / Mary H. Maguire [and others] -- Multiple literacies : an alternative OR beyond Freire / Diana Masny -- Portrayal of self in children's drawings of home, school, and community literacies / Maureen Kendrick, Roberta McKay, and Lyndsay Moffatt -- Things thicker than words : portraits of youth multiple literacies in an alternative secondary program / Theresa Rogers and Andrew Schofield -- Small piece of the truth / Scott Moloney -- Portrait of literacy from the Youth Millennium Project / Bonny Norton -- To "know papers" : Aboriginal perspectives on literacy / Jan Hare -- Rainbow/holistic approach to Aboriginal literacy / Ningwakwe/Rainbow Woman -- Creating change in literacy programs : taking account of violence / Jenny Horsman -- People write back : community literacy practices and the visibility of the ordinary writer / David Bloome -- "First we must dream, nothing is harder" : toward a discourse on literacy across the life span / B. Allan Quigley -- Thinking globally about English and new literacies : multilingual socialization at work / Patricia Duff -- Connecting the local and the global : a pedagogy of not-literacy / Elsa Auerbach
Summary This book crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community; and school literacies to offer a global perspective on multiple literacies, from theory to case studies of various settings. The examples suggest ways that literacy practices should be created
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Literacy -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Literacy -- Study and teaching -- Congresses
Education, Bilingual -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Critical pedagogy -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
Critical pedagogy
Education, Bilingual -- Social aspects
Literacy -- Social aspects
Literacy -- Study and teaching
Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
Alfabetisme.
Sociale aspecten.
Interculturele vergelijkingen (vorm)
Genre/Form Electronic book
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Jim, 1950-
LC no. 2004056424
ISBN 141061283X
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