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

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

• ISBN13: 9780805848601
• ISBN10: 0805848606
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-31
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This unique global perspective on multiple literacies crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies. It calls attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contex

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: An Introduction	p. 1
Family Literacies
Guiding Lights: Siblings as Literacy Teachers in a Multilingual Community	p. 21
Literacy Diversity: Understanding and Responding to the Textual Tapestries of Home, School, and Community	p. 41
Working and Learning With Families, Communities, and Schools: A Critical Case Study	p. 63
A Single Mother's Journey of Rediscovery	p. 87
Family Literacy: Listen to What the Families Have to Say	p. 91
Voices From the Field: Practitioner Perspectives on Issues in Family Literacy	p. 109
Early and Youth Literacies
"Down, Up, and Round": Setting Children Up as Readers and Writers in South African Classrooms	p. 117
The Chameleon Character of Multilingual Literacy Portraits: Re-Searching in "Heritage" Language Places and Spaces	p. 141
Multiple Literacies: An Alternative OR Beyond Freire	p. 171
The Portrayal of Self in Children's Drawings of Home, School, and Community Literacies	p. 185
Things Thicker Than Words: Portraits of Youth Multiple Literacies in an Alternative Secondary Program	p. 205
A Small Piece of the Truth	p. 221
A Portrait of Literacy From the Youth Millennium Project	p. 225
Community and Adult Literacies
To "Know Papers": Aboriginal Perspectives on Literacy	p. 243
The Rainbow/Holistic Approach to Aboriginal Literacy	p. 265
Creating Change in Literacy Programs: Taking Account of Violence	p. 277
The People Write Back: Community Literacy Practices and the Visibility of the Ordinary Writer	p. 301
"First We Must Dream. Nothing Is Harder": Toward a Discourse on Literacy Across the Life Span	p. 321
Literacy Policy Issues
Thinking Globally About English and New Literacies: Multilingual Socialization at Work	p. 341
Connecting the Local and the Global: A Pedagogy of Not-Literacy	p. 363
Author Index	p. 381
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