Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: Intersections and Tensions

by Anderson, Jim; Kendrick, Maureen; Rogers, Theresa; Smythe, Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9780805848595
• ISBN10: 0805848592
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-24
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Designed to stimulate debate and critical thinking and to draw readers' attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contexts, this book crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies to offer a unique global perspective on multiple literacies, from theory to case studies of various settings. These examples suggest ways that literacy practices should be created by simultaneously shaping relationships and identity, and by privileging particular literacy practices in particular situations. The dialogue within the book among chapter authors writing across traditionally distinct fields highlights the interconnections among diverse literacy sites and stimulates the pursuit of a more integrated and interdisciplinary approach to literacy education. The critical and dialogic approach serves to challenge and extend many conventional notions surrounding literacy education in communities, schools, and families. Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: Intersections and Tensionsis particularly relevant for scholars and students in the area of literacy, broadly speaking, including family literacy, community literacy, adult literacy, critical language studies, multiliteracies, youth literacy, English as a second language, language and social policy, and global literacy. Additionally, the inclusion of studies derived from a variety of research methods and designs makes this is a useful text in research methodology courses that aim to present and analyze real-life examples of literacy research designs and methods.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Victoria Purcell-Gates
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
1 Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: An Introduction	1	(20)
Maureen Kendrick, Theresa Rogers, Suzanne Smythe, and Jim Anderson
PART I: FAMILY LITERACIES
2 Guiding Lights: Siblings as Literacy Teachers in a Multilingual Community	21	(20)
Eve Gregory
3 Literacy Diversity: Understanding and Responding to the Textual Tapestries of Home, School, and Community	41	(22)
Trevor H. Cairney
4 Working and Learning With Families, Communities, and Schools: A Critical Case Study	63	(24)
Jim Anderson, Suzanne Smythe, and Jon Shapiro
Snapshot 1 A Single Mother's Journey of Rediscovery	87	(22)
Stacey Cody
5 Family Literacy: Listen to What the Families Have to Say	91	(18)
Linda M. Phillips and Heather L. Sample
Snapshot 2 Voices From the Field: Practitioner Perspectives on Issues in Family Literacy	109	(8)
Ruth Hayden and Maureen Sanders
PART II EARLY AND YOUTH LITERACIES
6 "Down, Up, and Round": Setting Children Up as Readers and Writers in South African Classrooms	117	(24)
Mastin Prinslon and Pippa Stein
7 The Chameleon Character of Multilingual Literacy Portraits: Re-Searching in "Heritage" Language Places and Spaces	141	(30)
Mary H. Maguire, Ann J. Beer, Hourig Attarian, Diane Baygin, Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, and Reiko Yoshida
8 Multiple Literacies: An Alternative OR Beyond Freire	171	(14)
Diana Masny
9 The Portrayal of Self in Children's Drawings of Home, School, and Community Literacies	185	(20)
Maureen Kendrick, Roberta McKay, and Lyndsay Moffatt
10 Things Thicker Than Words: Portraits of Youth Multiple Literacies in an Alternative Secondary Program	205	(16)
Theresa Rogers and Andrew Schofield
Snapshot 3 A Small Piece of the Truth	221	(4)
Scott Moloney
11 A Portrait of Literacy From the Youth Millennium Project	225	(18)
Bonny Norton
PART III: COMMUNITY AND ADULT LI^ERACIES
12 To "Know Papers": Aboriginal Perspectives on Literacy	243	(22)
Jan Hare
13 The Rainbow/Holistic Approach to Aboriginal Literacy	265	(12)
Ningwakwe/Rainbow Woman
14 Creating Change in Literacy Programs: Taking Account of Violence	277	(24)
Jenny Rorsman
15 The People Write Back: Community Literacy Practices and the Visibility of the Ordinary Writer	301	(20)
David Bloome
16 "First We Must Dream. Nothing Is Harder": Toward a Discourse on Literacy Across the Life Span	321	(20)
B. Allan Quigley
PART IV: LITERACY POLICY ISSUES
17 Thinking Globally About English and New Literacies: Multilingual Socialization at Work	341	(22)
Patricia Duff
18 Connecting the Local and the Global: A Pedagogy of Not-Literacy	363	(18)
Elsa Auerbach
Author Index	381	(8)
Subject Index	389