At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the center of their literacy worlds. Drawing on robust and growing knowledge which is often marginalized because of political and legislative forces, it explores young children s literacies as inclusive, redefined, and broadened encompassing technologies, the arts, multiple modalities, and teaching and learning for democracy, cultural sustainability and social justice. Highlighted themes include children s rights to...
At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young...
The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. The particular objective is to situate four gang members as literate, caring students from loving families whose identities and literacy keep them on the margins of school. The research described in this book suggests that advocacy is a particularly effective form of critical ethnography. Smith and Whitmore argue that until schools, as communities of practice, enable children and adolescents to...
The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink t...
Encourages educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. This book is useful for education researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education, and alternative community programs.
Encourages educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about thes...
With passion, clarity, and rich examples, "Reclaiming Writing" is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula. Classrooms and out-of-school settings are described and analyzed in exciting and groundbreaking narratives that provide insights into the many possibilities for writing that support writers searches for voice, identity, and agency.
Offering pedagogical strategies and the knowledge base in which they are grounded, the book looks at writing...
With passion, clarity, and rich examples, "Reclaiming Writing" is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, th...
At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the center of their literacy worlds. Drawing on robust and growing knowledge which is often marginalized because of political and legislative forces, it explores young children s literacies as inclusive, redefined, and broadened encompassing technologies, the arts, multiple modalities, and teaching and learning for democracy, cultural sustainability and social justice. Highlighted themes include children s rights to...
At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young...
