How do children raised in the powerful oral traditions of a Native American community use writing to construct meaningful learning experiences? That provocative question sent the authors into the classrooms of Arizona's Tohono O'odham community for a year-long research study, integrating classroom, family, home and community experiences. "Literacy Events in a Community of Young Writers" is intended to be of use to anyone interested in language learning: teachers, researchers, school and community administrators, linguists, ethnographers and social historians. The students' own stories and the authors' analysis of regional and national contexts should make this book a useful contribution to both literacy and multicultural research.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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978-0-8077-3211-3 (9780807732113)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The Writing Process - the Making of Meaning; The Research Story - Context, Methodology, and Findings; Self in the Writings of Tohono O'odham Children; Speaking, Searching, and Sharing in the Community of Writers; Pronoun Use in the Work of Young Writers - "He Got Home Before He Could Get Him"; Spelling in Third and Fourth Grade - Focus on Growth; Bringing it All Together - Anna Writing in a Community of Writers; Parrots, Soldiers, and Deer-Hunting - Gordon Grows and Changes; Process Data - Can I Do Anything Real with this Stuff?
