Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

by Edited by Arnetha F. Ball , Sarah Warshauer Freedman

• ISBN13: 9780521831055
• ISBN10: 0521831059
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This represents a multidisciplinary collaboration that highlights the significance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories to modern scholarship in the field of language and literacy. Book chapters examine such important questions as: What resources do students bring from their home/community environments that help them become literate in school? What knowledge do teachers need in order to meet the literacy needs of varied students? How can teacher educators and professional development programs better understand teachers' needs and help them to become better prepared to teach diverse literacy learners? What challenges lie ahead for literacy learners in the coming century? Chapters are contributed by scholars who write from varied disciplinary perspectives. In addition, other scholarly voices enter into a Bakhtinian dialogue with these scholars about their ideas. These 'other voices' help our readers push the boundaries of current thinking on Bakhtinian theory and make this book a model of heteroglossia and dialogic intertexuality.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
PART I IDEOLOGIES IN DIALOGUE: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
1 Ideological Becoming: Bakhtinian Concepts to Guide the Study of Language, Literacy, and Learning	3	(31)
Sarah Warshauer Freedman and Arnetha F. Ball
2 Dewey and Bakhtin in Dialogue: From Rosenblatt to a Pedagogy of Literature as Social, Aesthetic Practice	34	(19)
Mark Dressman
3 Intertextualities: Volosinov, Bakhtin, Literary Theory, and Literacy Studies	53	(13)
Charles Bazerman
4 The Teaching of Academic Language to Minority Second Language Learners	66	(33)
Guadalupe Valdés
Voices in Dialogue - Dialoguing About Dialogism: Form and Content in a Bakhtinian Dialogue	99	(8)
Allison Weisz Brettschneider
PART II VOICED, DOUBLE VOICED, AND MULTIVOICED DISCOURSES IN OUR SCHOOLS
5 Performance as the Foundation for a Secondary School Literacy Program: A Bakhtinian Perspective	107	(22)
Eileen Landay
6 Double Voiced Discourse: African American Vernacular English as Resource in Cultural Modeling Classrooms	129	(19)
Carol D. Lee
7 Narratives of Rethinking: The Inner Dialogue of Classroom Discourse and Student Writing	148	(24)
Christian P. Knoeller
8 Ever Newer Ways to Mean: Authoring Pedagogical Change in Secondary Subject-Area Classrooms	172	(31)
Cynthia L. Greenleaf and Mira-Lisa Katz
Voices in Dialogue - Multivoiced Discourses in Ideological Becoming	203	(10)
Verda Delp
PART III HETEROGLOSSIA IN A CHANGING WORLD
9 New Teachers for New Times: The Dialogical Principle in Teaching and Learning Electronically	213	(19)
Jabari Mahiri
10 Is Contradiction Contrary?	232	(20)
Melanie Sperling
11 A Bakhtinian Perspective on Learning to Read and Write Late in Life	252	(27)
Judy Kalman
12 New Times and New Literacies: Themes for a Changing World	279	(28)
James Paul Gee
Voices in Dialogue - Hybridity as Literacy, Literacy as Hybridity: Dialogic Responses to a Heteroglossic World	307	(1)
Alice A. Miano
PART IV A CLOSING THOUGHT ON BAKHTINIAN PERSPECTIVES
13 The Process of Ideological Becoming	307	(26)
Gary Saul Monson
Author Index	333	(6)
Subject Index	339