Literacy category: 816 books
Teaching Disciplinary Literacy
Using Video Records of Practice to Improve Secondary Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This practical guide will help pre- and inservice secondary teachers and their instructors and coaches to use videos as a resource to improve teaching. Derived from the authors’ research and experience in a teacher preparation program using video records of practice as a core element for reflection...
Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America
Local Perspectives and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics,...
by Bronwyn Williams, Amy Zenger
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet these scenes go largely unnoticed, despite the fact that these images recreate and reinforce pervasive concepts and perceptions of literacy.
This...
Literacy Theories for the Digital Age
Social, Critical, Multimodal, Spatial, Material and Sensory Lenses
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Winner of the 2017 Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association.
*Literacy Theories for the Digital Age *insightfully brings together six essential approaches to literacy research and educational practice. The book provides powerful and accessible theories for readers, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
The first comprehensive research handbook of its kind, this volume showcases innovative approaches to understanding adolescent literacy learning in a variety of settings. Distinguished contributors examine how well adolescents are served by current instructional practices and highlight ways to translate...
Situated Literacies
Theorising Reading and Writing in Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices.
Detailed ethnographic studies...
The Light of Knowledge
Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are...
Handbook of Language and Literacy, Second Edition
Development and Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
An acclaimed reference that fills a significant gap in the literature, this volume examines the linkages between spoken and written language development, both typical and atypical. Leading authorities address the impact of specific language-related processes on K-12 literacy learning, with attention...
Writing against Racial Injury
The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider...
by Peter Gutiérrez
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic resource offers teachers a new way to energize the teaching of writing while also meeting Common Core State Standards. The author draws on his unique background in education and media to provide this all-in-one resource to help teachers use the versatility of scriptwriting to motivate...
Literacy and Mobility
Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from...
Remixing Multiliteracies
Theory and Practice from New London to New Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Bringing together renowned scholars in literacy education, this volume offers the first comprehensive account of the evolution and future of multiliteracies pedagogy. This groundbreaking collection examines the rich contributions of the New London Group (NLG)—an international gathering of noted...
Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II
A Project of the International Reading Association
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II brings together state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the multiple ways through which learners...
The Evolution of College English
Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2011
Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out “four corners” of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller...