Educating for Language and Literacy Diversity
Mobile Selves
Published on 25. November 2014
Book
Hardback
XIII, 220 pages
978-1-137-30983-9 (ISBN)
Description
Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls. This book examines everyday forms of talk and writing in relation to standardised forms and schooling expectations to suggest ways forward in educational discourse.
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Edition
2014 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIII, 220 p.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-30983-9 (9781137309839)
DOI
10.1057/9781137309860
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Persons
Mastin Prinsloo is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His recent edited books include Literacy Studies and The Future of Literacy Studies.
Christopher Stroud is Professor of Linguistics at University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University, Sweden. His recent publications include Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore.
Christopher Stroud is Professor of Linguistics at University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University, Sweden. His recent publications include Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore.
Content
Introduction; Mastin Prinsloo and Christopher Stroud 1. Classroom Constructions of Language and Literacy Activity; Constant Leung and Brian Street 2. What is Quechua Literacy For? Ideological Dilemmas in Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Peruvian Andes; Virginia Zavala 3. Growth of Communicative Competence in a Dynamic African Context: Challenges for Developmental Assessment; Robert Serpell 4. Moving Between Ekasi and the Suburbs: The Mobility of Linguistic Resources in a South African De(re)segregated School; Carolyn McKinney 5. Shades, Voice and Mobility: Remote Communities Resist and Reclaim Linguistic and Educational Practices in Ethiopia; Kathleen Heugh 6. Marginalised Knowledges and Marginalised Languages for Epistemic Access to Piaget and Vygotsky's Theories; Michael Joseph and Esther Ramani 7. Ethnography and Literacy: Revisiting the Literacy Event in Roadville, Trackton and Maintown; Kimberly Lenters 8. Recontextualizing Research, Glocalizing Practice; Elsa Auerbach 9. Xenophobia and Constructions of the Other; Hilary Janks 10. Bodies of Language and Languages of Bodies: South African Puzzles and Opportunities; Crain Soudien ?