| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literacy -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Literacy -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Literacy -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
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Literacy -- Study and teaching. |
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Literacy. |
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Education, Bilingual -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Education, Bilingual -- Social aspects. |
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Education, Bilingual. |
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Critical pedagogy -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Critical pedagogy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Anderson, Jim, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Portraits of literacy across families, communities, and schools. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005 0805848592 0805848606 (DLC) 2004056424 (OCoLC)56809858 |
| ISBN |
141061283X (electronic book) |
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9781410612830 (electronic book) |
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0805848592 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0805848606 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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