Literacy

This volume explores how educators conceptualized and implemented critical approaches to systemic functional linguistics that support bilingual students in appropriating and challenging dominant knowledge domains in K-16 contexts.

This volume presents 50 contributions on the themes of reasonableness and effectiveness and their connections, which are central issues in argumentation theory.

The book focuses on the state of education and on the levels of inequality among gender, rural-urban and social groups.

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of critical literacies by pursuing a balanced approach to theory, research, and practice.

Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia.

This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students' bilingual identities in an Australian primary school.

The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an "e;academic literacies"e; approach in policy and pedagogy.

With the recent explosion of activity and discussion surrounding comics, it seems timely to examine how we might think about the multiple ways in which comics are read and consumed.

This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings.

Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective.

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the relationship between such policymaking and transformations in the economy.

Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents' everyday lives and experiences.

This book explores the impact of the Lesson Books of the National Board of Education in Ireland in the nineteenth century.

Bringing together leading scholars, this book describes proven ways to enhance early literacy skills in 3- and 4-year-olds, especially those from low-income families.

Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around "e;Orwellian Spaces,"e; signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education.

This book explores Singapore's language education system.

This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain social models - such as 'childhood' and 'school', 'class' and 'family' - that so deeply underpin educational policy and practice as to be rendered invisible.

Children's literature shapes what children learn about the world.

For use in Elementary Reading Methods (K-8), Supplementary Reading Methods, or Phonological Awareness and Phonics courses.

A practical and innovative guide to emphasizing literacies development when teaching world languagesLiteracies in Language Education introduces multiliteracies pedagogy, which focuses on critical engagement with texts, intercultural understanding, and language proficiency development.

Applying a languaging perspective, this volume frames the teaching and learning of literacy, literature, language, and the language arts as social and linguistic actions that generate new questions to make visible social, cultural, psychological, linguistic, and educational processes.

This book mainly discusses about the alter ego perspectives in literary historiography.

Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students daily lives.

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in school literacy education and their implications for practice.

Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children.

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization.

Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research.

Bringing together leading experts, this book presents the principles of effective literacy leadership and describes proven methods for improving instruction, assessment, and schoolwide professional development.

The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the metropolis.

This insightful book reviews the current research on literacy programming, examines the latest standards for strengthening reading skills, and provides educators, families, and caregivers methods for building successful reading habits in and out of the classroom.

This book brings together the work of established scholars from around the world to celebrate and honor the many ways in which Steve Graham has contributed to the advancement of teaching and researching writing.

Elijah Muhammad and the Supreme of Literacy explores how Elijah Muhammad framed the term literacy as contrasted with its generally known definitions and applications.

This book explores the contextual, particularly cultural-related, factors that may impact reading outcomes of young Indigenous learners in their early years, underpinned by the conceptual framework of cultural capital originated by Bourdieu.

This highly readable handbook synthesizes the best research on K-8 literacy instruction and distills key implications for classroom practice.

Rhetorical Ecologies invites you on a transformative journey through the history of writing and rhetoric studies adoption of ecology, situating this history in rich discussions about:the potential that ecology holds for rhetoric and writing studies;the untapped potential of ecology in fostering inclusive, equitable, and justice-oriented approaches to rhetorical inquiry; andthe diverse and dynamic nature of rhetoric ecologies.

This book provides a critical account of the development of questions, approaches, methods, and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines.

Applying a languaging perspective, this volume frames the teaching and learning of literacy, literature, language, and the language arts as social and linguistic actions that generate new questions to make visible social, cultural, psychological, linguistic, and educational processes.

This volume offers an updated analysis of the methodology of reading and reading research since 1995, when the landmark book Verbal Protocols of Reading: The Nature of Constructively Responsive Reading by Michael Pressley and Peter Afflerbach was published.

A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.

By the co-author of Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world.

Siempre observados por los prejuicios de la gente, los hermanos Kendrick eran tan opuestos como el día y la noche.

We came to the task of editing this book from different disciplines and back- grounds but with a mutuality of interest in exploring the concept of literacy campaigns in historical and comparative perspective.

This book presents the findings of two case studies in the 'Making Connections' two-year project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

This book examines students with limited or interrupted education (SLIFE) in the context of English learners and teacher preparation courses from a cultural and social lens.