Many Pathways to Literacy: Young Children Learning with Siblings, Grandparents, Peers and Communities

by Gregory,Eve

• ISBN13: 9780415306171
• ISBN10: 0415306175
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 4/8/2004
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive.

Table of Contents

Figures	x
Notes on contributors	xi
Foreword by Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chávez	xv
Acknowledgements	xvii
Introduction Syncretic Literacy Studies: starting points	1	(5)
EVE GREGORY, SUSI LONG AND DINAH VOLK
1 A sociocultural approach to learning	6	(15)
EVE GREGORY, SUSI LONG AND DINAH VOLK
PART I The family context: siblings and grandparents	21	(68)
Introduction to Part I	23	(66)
2 Mediating networks for literacy learning: the role of Puerto Rican siblings	25	(15)
DINAH VOLK WITH MARTHA DE ACOSTA
3 Samia and Sadaqat play school: early bilingual literacy at home	40	(12)
ROSE DRURY
4 'Right, get your book bags!': siblings playing school in multiethnic London	52	(14)
ANN WILLIAMS
5 Buzz Lightyear in the nursery: intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age	66	(11)
CLARE KELLY
6 Storytelling and Latino elders: what can children learn?	77	(14)
IRMA M. OLMEDO
PART II Friends as teachers	89	(66)
Introduction to Part II	91	(38)
7 Making a place for peer interaction: Mexican American kindergarteners learning language and literacy	93	(12)
SUSI LONG WITH DONNA BELL AND JIM BROWN
8 Community school pupils reinterpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers	105	(12)
CHARMIAN KENNER
9 'How do I read these words?': bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese-speaking peers	117	(12)
YUANGGUANG CHEN AND EVE GREGORY
10 Friendship literacy: young children as cultural and linguistic experts	129	(13)
MANJULA DATTA
11 Learning to be just: interactions of White working-class peers	142	(13)
REBECCA ROGERS AND MELISSA MOSLEY
PART III Learning in community settings	155	(66)
Introduction to Part III	157	(2)
12 Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community	159	(12)
ALESSANDRO DURANTI, ELINOR OCHS AND ELIA K. TA'ASE
13 Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school	171	(11)
LEENA HELAVAARA ROBERTSON
14 The African American Church: a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children	182	(13)
GWENDOLYN THOMPSON MCMILLON AND PATRICIA A. EDWARDS
15 His eye is on the sparrow: teaching and learning in an African American church	195	(13)
WENDY L. HAIGHT AND JANET CARTER-BLACK
16 Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children	208	(13)
MARY EUNICE ROMERO
Conclusion
Many pathways: implications of Syncretic Literacy Studies for practice and research	221	(5)
EVE GREGORY, SUSI LONG AND DINAH VOLK
References	226	(19)
Index	245