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 book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate literacy learning, the book shows teachers how to use a family photo, heirloom, or recipe to tell intergenerat
This book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate liter...
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 ...
Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World brings together the perspectives of 26 literacy/English teacher educators from four countries: Canada, US, UK, and Australia. In this unique text, the contributors of whom many are renowned experts in critical literacy and multiliteracies, provide readers with an overview of trends in literacy/English teacher education. The chapters begin with authors' personal stories and current research, giving readers insight into the personal and professional worlds of the contributors. Included in each chapter is a rich description of...
Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World brings together the perspectives of 26 literacy/English teacher educators from fou...
Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World brings together the perspectives of 26 literacy/English teacher educators from four countries: Canada, US, UK, and Australia. In this unique text, the contributors of whom many are renowned experts in critical literacy and multiliteracies, provide readers with an overview of trends in literacy/English teacher education. The chapters begin with authors' personal stories and current research, giving readers insight into the personal and professional worlds of the contributors. Included in each chapter is a rich description of...
Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World brings together the perspectives of 26 literacy/English teacher educators from fou...
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...
