Literacy As Social Practice

Author : Vivian Maria Vasquez
Publisher : National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy as Social Practice written by Vivian Maria Vasquez and published by National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte). This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors discuss the transformative possibilities of literacy through a collection of 12 articles originally published in Primary Voices K-6. Based on a view of literacy as social practice, this book highlights the ways in which classroom teachers and educators have practiced and imagined teaching literacy in everyday classrooms. The twelve essays published here originally appeared in the NCTE journal Primary Voices K-6 and highlight four key issues essential to literacy practice in elementary classrooms: access, meaning making, inquiry, and transformation. The individual essays challenge us to go beyond a view of literacy as a simple matter of skill and help to realize its transformative power. In providing a contemporary conceptual framework and further resources, the editors have looked not only back to Primary Voices K-6 but also forward, noting that the practices reported in the book represent only the tip of what is possible and including throughout the volume discussions of what the future might look like and how particular sets of social practices might mature and evolve.

Author : Uta Papen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134260229
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Literacy as Social Practice written by Uta Papen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a radically new perspective on reading, writing and mathematics for adults, this refreshing and challenging book shows how teachers and curriculum developers have much to gain from understanding the role of literacy in learners' lives, bringing in their families, social networks and jobs. Looking at the practicalities of how teachers and students can work with social practice in mind, Adult Literacy as Social Practice is particularly focused on: * how a social theory of literacy and numeracy compares with other theoretical perspectives * how to analyze reading and writing in everyday life using the concepts of social literacy as analytical tools, and what this tells us about learners' teaching needs * what is actually happening in adult basic education and how literacy is really being taught * professional development. With major policy initiatives coming into force, this is the essential guide for teachers and curriculum developers through this area, offering one-stop coverage of the key concepts without the need for finding materials from far-scattered sources.

Author : Victoria PURCELL GATES
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042379
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Print Literacy Development written by Victoria PURCELL GATES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices.

Author : Open University
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853592157
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Literacy in Social Practice written by Open University and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled for use in the Open University MA course E825. The 15 articles sample the ideas over the past decade on the importance of social factors in language and literacy development. They include theoretical and ethnographic accounts, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, and explorations of the political aspects and the discourses within which language and literacy are discussed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David Barton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027298661
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter Writing as a Social Practice written by David Barton and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing.

Author : Mastin Prinsloo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027217955
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Uses of Literacy written by Mastin Prinsloo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa challenges state-driven policy and provision in South Africa around the construction of a national delivery system for adult literacy that is part of a programme for Adult Basic Education. The implication is that many people who are the target of this system will be unwilling to participate at the entry point of literacy acquisition unless a reconceptualisation of the nature of literacy use by adults is made. Using fascinating and carefully documented case-study material, this book raises vital questions about literacy and illiteracy, and about adult education. Above all, it questions the efficacy of any literacy programme which fails to acknowledge the many ways in which uneducated and so called 'illiterate' people already use reading, writing and numeracy in their everyday lives.

Author : Mike Baynham
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy Practices written by Mike Baynham and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It examines the social context of literacy, reviewing important theoretical sources and providing illustrative case studies, going on to review current linguistics perspectives on literacy, with illustrative texts. Mike Baynham also includes a critical review of ideas on reading and writing development from a social practice perspective, and concludes with a discussion of issues in researching literacy as social practice. Literacy Practices will be of interest to students of applied linguistics, language education, cultural studies and adult education, as well as literary theorists and researchers, and anthropologists.

Author : Victoria Purcell-Gates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780805854923
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Practices of Literacy written by Victoria Purcell-Gates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents case studies of literacy practices as shaped by culture, language, community, and power. Covering a range of contexts and exploring a number of relevant dimensions in the evolving picture of literacy as situated, multiple, and social, the studies are grouped around four overarching themes: *Language, Literacy, and Hegemony; *The Immigrant Experience: Language, Literacies, and Identities; *Literacies In-/Out-of-School and On the Borders; and *New Pedagogies for New Literacies. It is now generally recognized that literacy is multiple and woven within the sociocultural lives of communities, but what is not yet fully understood is how it is multiple--how this multiplicity plays out across and within differing sociocultural contexts. Such understanding is critical for crafting school literacy practices in response to the different literacy sets brought to school by different learners. Toward this end it is necessary to know what those sets are composed of. Each of the case studies contributes to building this knowledge in new and interesting ways. As a whole the book provides a rich and complex portrait of literacy-in-use. Cultural Practices of Literacy: Case Studies of Language, Literacy, Social Practice, and Power advances sociocultural research and theory pertaining to literacy development as it occurs across school and community boundaries and cultural contexts and in and out of school. It is intended for researchers, students, professionals across the field of literacy studies and schooling, including specialists in family literacy, community literacy, adult literacy, critical language studies, multiliteracies, youth literacy, international education, English as a second language, language and social policy, and global literacy.

Author : Laurie Makin
Publisher : MacLennan & Petty
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacies in Early Childhood written by Laurie Makin and published by MacLennan & Petty. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriched with real-life examples of children's dialogue, artwork, and writing, this eye-opening text gives readers a fresh perspective on literacy development--knowledge they'll use to improve and revitalize literacy programs in early childhood classrooms.

Author : Kate Pahl
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026236073X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Literacies written by Kate Pahl and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations. This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram, watching news footage, and listening to music. It goes beyond well-worn framings of literacy as an object of study to reimagine literacy as constantly in motion, vital, and dynamic, filled with affective intensities. A lived literacies approach implies a turn to activism, to hopeful practice, and to creativity. The authors examine literacies through a series of active verbs: seeing, disrupting, hoping, knowing, creating, and making. Case studies--ranging from an exploration of photography as a way to shift perspectives to a project in which adults teach young people how to fish--show lived literacies in both theory and practice. With these chapters, Pahl and Rowsell, along with contributors Collier, Pool, Rasool, and Trzecak, make it possible to see literacy in everyday activities, woven into the modes of seeing and knowing. By disruption and activism, literacy can encompass a wide array of practices--exchanging information at a school gate or making a collage. Grounding theory in the sites and spaces of their research, working with artists, photographers, poets, and makers, the authors issue a call to action for literacy education.