This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, and in and out of educational settings in such locations as the US, the UK, South Africa, Australia and Canada.
This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media,...
Family Literacy Experiences explores the power of the home-school connection, and shows teachers how to make the world outside the classroom an integral part of compelling instruction.
This book offers a multitude of effective and practical ways that teachers can use what already excites and motivates students. It invites teachers to recognize the rich diversity of literacy experiences outside the classroom and create a parallel classroom where meaningful reading and writing takes place.
This unique resource is organized by genre, and each chapter examines:...
Family Literacy Experiences explores the power of the home-school connection, and shows teachers how to make the world outside the classroom...
This ethnographic study examines parent and child experiences with learning resources in a range of sites, from schools and libraries to doctor's waiting rooms and supermarkets. It also investigates the ways in which governments and corporations are transforming early childhood education and creating an early learning industry.
This ethnographic study examines parent and child experiences with learning resources in a range of sites, from schools and libraries to doctor's wait...
Featuring key discussions and debates about the application of particular methods within early childhood literacy, this collection takes a broad view of what literacy is in homes, communities, schools, and in terms of local and global policy, with a section on new directions in the field.
Featuring key discussions and debates about the application of particular methods within early childhood literacy, this collection takes a broad view ...
This ethnographic study examines parent and child experiences with learning resources in a range of sites, from schools and libraries to doctor's waiting rooms and supermarkets. It also investigates the ways in which governments and corporations are transforming early childhood education and creating an early learning industry.
This ethnographic study examines parent and child experiences with learning resources in a range of sites, from schools and libraries to doctor's wait...
Learning and Literacy over Time addresses two gaps in literacy research-studies offering longitudinal perspectives on learners and the trajectory of their learning lives inside and outside of school, and studies revealing how past experiences with literacy and learning inform future experiences and practices. It does so by bringing together researchers who revisited subjects of their initial research conducted over the past 10-20 years with people whom they encountered through ethnographic or classroom-based investigations and are the subjects of previous published accounts.The case studies,...
Learning and Literacy over Time addresses two gaps in literacy research-studies offering longitudinal perspectives on learners and the trajectory of t...
Learning and Literacy over Time addresses two gaps in literacy research-studies offering longitudinal perspectives on learners and the trajectory of their learning lives inside and outside of school, and studies revealing how past experiences with literacy and learning inform future experiences and practices. It does so by bringing together researchers who revisited subjects of their initial research conducted over the past 10-20 years with people whom they encountered through ethnographic or classroom-based investigations and are the subjects of previous published accounts.
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Learning and Literacy over Time addresses two gaps in literacy research-studies offering longitudinal perspectives on learners and the tra...
A timely addition to the SAGE Swift Series, Crayons and Ipads examines the use of digital technology in the early stages of child development and the way in which learning techniques have evolved in classrooms across the world. Taking the position that tablets provide an accessible learning and instructional tool, Debra Harwood explores how tablets can be used to provoke, ignite and excite children's interest in the world around them, arguing that it is through this engagement with technology that new discoveries are made and learning takes place. Guiding...
A timely addition to the SAGE Swift Series, Crayons and Ipads examines the use of digital technology in the early stages of ...
The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. With forty-three chapters reflecting new research from leading scholars in the field, the handbook pushes at the boundaries of existing fields and combines with related fields and disciplines to develop a lens on contemporary scholarship and emergent fields of inquiry.
The Handbook is divided into eight sections:
The foundations of literacy studies
Space-focused approaches
Time-focused approaches
Multimodal...
The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. With forty-three chapters ref...