Literacy

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close...

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close...

Talking about Literacy re-examines dominant notions of what litreracy is, and challenges the problem-solution reflex to the issue (the problem is i...

Essentials of Integrating the Language Arts, Fifth Edition, offers students all the practical tools they need to be effective language arts teacher...

This rhetoric-and-reader textbook teaches college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the conten...

English Language Arts offers both undergraduates and starting-graduate students in education an introduction to the connections that exist between ...

Spanish Heritage Learners' Emerging Literacy: Empirical Research and Classroom Practice introduces a comprehensive, multi-level empirical study on ...

Offering a unique and original perspective on Bourdieu, language-based ethnographies,and reflexivity, this volume provides a nuanced, in-depth disc...

Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults is a practical resource for teachers, li...

Parents who are also educational researchers have access to a domain that is highly complex and not always available to other scholars. In this boo...

First Published in 2000. At the start of the new millennium the definition of literacy has taken on multiple electronic possibilities. But this is ...

The early years are increasingly recognized as a priority time for the education of children and language and literacy are key elements of any earl...

Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities...

This up-close look at Chinese ESL teachers documents undertakings at formal and informal levels to support and sustain their expertise in ways that...

This up-close look at Chinese ESL teachers documents undertakings at formal and informal levels to support and sustain their expertise in ways that...

Through case studies from around the world, this book illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing families negotiating the issues of langua...

Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in e...

Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the ...

Through case studies from around the world, this book illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing families negotiating the issues of langua...

At the heart of this inquiry into the ethical implications of education reform on reading practices in middle and secondary classrooms, the central...

Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity con...

The contribution of this book is to synthesize important common themes and highlight the unique features, findings, and lessons learned from three ...

Showcasing a new methodology in language learning and identity research, this carefully conceptualized, innovative book explicates the use of autoe...

Showcasing a new methodology in language learning and identity research, this carefully conceptualized, innovative book explicates the use of autoe...

Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity con...

Spotlighting the challenges and realities faced by linguistically diverse immigrant and resident students in U.S. secondary schools and in their tr...

Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infu...

In this book the authors describe their strategies for critically reading global and multicultural literature and the range of procedures they use ...

Spotlighting the challenges and realities faced by linguistically diverse immigrant and resident students in U.S. secondary schools and in their tr...

Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infu...

In this book the authors describe their strategies for critically reading global and multicultural literature and the range of procedures they use ...

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...

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...

Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of...

Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of...