1. Introduction: The Role of Recognition -- 2. Why a Queer Literacy Framework Matters: Models for Sustaining (A)Gender Self-Determination and Justice in Today's Schooling Practices -- 3. Teaching Our Teachers: Trans* and Gender Education in Teacher Preparation and Professional Development -- 4. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz -- 5. Beyond This or That: Challenging the Li…
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, and Literacy -- Chapter 2: “But, we are Karenni. We are not Burmese.”: Historical Contexts and Lived Experiences of Karenni Refugees from Burma -- Chapter 3: The Three Families -- Chapter 4: Life, Liberty, and (the Pursuit of) English -- Chapter 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy -- Chapter 6: Digital Literacy in …
DeDeconstructing Postcolonial Ambivalence in Educational Perspective -- Decolonization -- Sociological Invisiblization -- Political Didactic Structuring of Consciousness -- The Need for Localizing Research -- Clarifying Philosophical Underpinnings.Norah Barongo-Muweke aims to reconstruct a theory of citizenship education for the postcolonial South. She works towards fostering scientific constru…
Part I Overview, Rationale, Foundation -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Rationale for the Project -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundation of Critical Literacies, Global, and Multicultural Education -- Part II Teachers' Examples in Diverse Classroom Settings -- Chapter 4 Case Studies in the High School Classroom -- Chapter 5 Case Studies in the Middle School Classroom -- Chapter 6 Case Studies…
Second Language Writing in Elementary Classrooms focuses on L2 writing in elementary classrooms. It features chapters that highlight research in elementary classrooms focused on the writing development of multilingual children, and research in teacher education to prepare elementary teachers to teach L2 writing and address L2 writers' needs. Part I presents instructional issues for L2 writers a…
Mainstream narratives suggest Black and African Caribbean children, white working class children, and boys, are 'failing' to learn to read. This book investigates intersections between race, class and gender in the picture of the 'poor reader', starting with young children's voices. What is the place of home learning in the story of children learning- or failing to learn to read? What do we lea…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Section One -- Chapter 2 Preface Zombies Today -- Chapter 3 The 'next people': And the zombies shall inherit the earth -- Chapter 4 The Dead are Rising: Gender and Technology in the Landscape of Crisis -- Section Two -- Chapter 5 Into the Black: Zombie Pedagogy, Education and Youth at the end of the Anthropocene -- Chapter 6 From Prom Queen to Zombie Barbie: A tutorial…
Introduction -- Part I The Cognitive and Biological Basis of Fluency Related Processes -- The Neurobiological Basis of Reading Fluency by Tami Katzir, Joanna A. Christodoulou and Bernard Chang -- Neuroimaging Perspectives on Skilled and Impaired Reading and the Bilingual Experience by Kaja K. Jasinska, Stephen Frost, Peter Molfese, Nicole Landi, W. Einar Mencl, Jay Rueckl and Ken Pugh -- The …
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Overarching themes, bilingual dreams and multilingual landscapes: Quadrilingual education in Singapore -- Section 1: Transitions -- Chapter 2 Transmission and development of literacy values and practices: An ethnographic study of a Malay family in Singapore -- Chapter 3 "I believe, therefore I practice": Teachers' beliefs on literacy acquisition and their classroom pra…