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  • Handbook of Literacy in Families and Communities

    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Education
    This cutting-edge Handbook explores the interactive and intergenerational nature of literacy across diverse environments, considering how disadvantaged families can be better supported through tailored programs. It provides an extensive exploration of family literacy, covering early childhood development, parenting education, and intervention services.Renowned experts outline multimodal and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Literacy in Families and Communities

    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Education
    This cutting-edge Handbook explores the interactive and intergenerational nature of literacy across diverse environments, considering how disadvantaged families can be better supported through tailored programs. It provides an extensive exploration of family literacy, covering early childhood development, parenting education, and intervention services.Renowned experts outline multimodal and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate

    A Window into Identity Construction, Transnationality, and Schooling

    This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames. Drawing on reports from five years of an ongoing longitudinal research project involving students from immigrant families across their elementary school years, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Literacy Scholarship

    Approaches to Synthesizing Literacy Research

    This book is a roadmap to the key decisions, processes, and procedures to use when synthesizing qualitative literacy research. Covering the major types of syntheses – including the dissertation literature review, traditional literature review, integrative literature review, meta-synthesis, and meta-ethnography – Compton-Lilly, Rogers, and Lewis Ellison offer techniques and frameworks to use when ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Whitewashed Critical Perspectives

    Restoring the Edge to Edgy Ideas

    This volume examines revolutionary constructs in literacy education and demonstrates how they have been gentrified, whitewashed, and appropriated, losing their revolutionary edge so as to become palatable for the mainstream. Written by top scholars in literacy education, chapters cover key concepts that were originally conceived as radical theories to upset the status quo—including Third Space, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Time and Space in Literacy Research

    Literacy researchers interested in how specific sites of learning situate students and the ways they make sense of their worlds are asking new questions and thinking in new ways about how time and space operate as contextual dimensions in the learning lives of students, teachers, and families. These investigations inform questions related to history, identity, methodology, in-school and out-of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Reading Students' Lives

    Literacy Learning across Time

    Series series Expanding Literacies in Education
    Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students’ lives across time. The final book in a series of four that track a group of low-income African American students and their parents across a decade, it follows the same children into ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Reading Time

    The Literate Lives of Urban Secondary Students and Their Families

    Series series Language & Literacy
    While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, Catherine Compton-Lilly examines the literacy practices and school trajectories of eight middle school students and their families. Through a unique longitudinal lens—the author has studied these same ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners

    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students’ futures, such as building on students’ home languages and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning

    Edited by a diverse group of expert collaborators, the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning is a landmark volume that brings together cutting-edge research examining learning as entailing inherently cultural processes. Conceptualizing culture as both a set of social practices and connected to learner identities, the chapters synthesize contemporary research in elaborating a new vision ... Read more

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  • Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education

    Language, Literacy and Culture

    In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers of students. Exploring crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of linguistic diversity and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth

    Building Culturally Responsive, Critical and Creative Education in School and Community Contexts

    The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth offers a critical sociopolitical perspective on working with emerging bilingual youth at the intersection of the arts and language learning. Utilizing research from both arts and language education to explore the ways they work in tandem to contribute to emergent bilingual students’ language and academic development, the book analyzes model arts projects to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD