Students' Identities and Literacy Learning

by McCarthey, Sarah J.; IRA,

• ISBN13: 9780872074460
• ISBN10: 0872074463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Educators will find in this book an opportunity to examine the multiple, dynamic identities of the students they instruct and to consider the ways in which all teachers and students are shaped by their social and cultural settings. The volume is the first to examine theories of identity and elementary literacy practices by presenting data in a teacher-friendly format. The chapters highlight the influences of school and, to some extent, home contexts on students' identities as readers and writers, and give numerous implications for practice. McCarthey collected data from three sites in which teachers implemented writing workshop and literature-based instruction in grades 3-6. This book focuses on the students in these sites, who were from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. By providing information about the contexts in which students read and wrote, McCarthey demonstrates the power of the teacher-student relationship, the importance of the classroom curriculum, and the influence of parents and peers on students. Published by International Reading Association

Table of Contents

Note From the Series Editors	ix
Review Board	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
Situating Identity theory, Research, and Practice	9	(22)
Appropriation, Resistance, and Transformation in a Writing Workshop	31	(32)
Appropriating, Resisting, and Transforming Norms in a Literature-Based, Multiage Classroom	63	(24)
Appropriation, Resistance, and Transformation in Reading Workshop and Reading Renaissance	87	(20)
Understanding Students Within Their Social Contexts	107	(24)
Reference	131	(6)
Author Index	137	(5)
Subject Index	142