Product Description: Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered contexts and explores ways to foster learning and achievement for diverse students in various settings...read more

How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical framework and detailed examples, pedagogical resources, and insights into ways to build critical literacies with teachers in and out of school. Its unique contribution is to bridge critical literacy theory and teacher education. Participants in teacher education programs and professional development settings are often reminded of the need to build curriculum using children’s inquiry questions, passions and interests but generally this message is delivered only through telling (lectures) or showing (examples from other people’s classrooms). This book advances critical literary by explaining and illustrating how teacher educators can do much more―by creating opportunities for pre-service and in-service teachers to "live critical literacies" through experiencing firsthand what it is like to be a learner where the curriculum is built around teachers’ own inquiry questions, passions, and interests.

The case studies in this book, derived from qualitative research, offer an inside look at the professional lives and classrooms of five techers. Each teacher is presented in a case study. In various ways, each works to provide equal treatment and access to knowledge of powerful literacy for all the students in his or her classroom. The five teachers do this work within the broader context of mandated reform of literacy education. Experienced teacher educators respond in dialogue with key themes and issues raised by the five cases

Product Description: Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers: The Impact on Student Learning is a resource guide for elementary teachers and college-level student teachers for teaching diversity awareness across the various areas of content. It contains many exciting activities teachers can use to enhance learning while making learning and teaching fun and exciting...read more

Product Description: This text uses positioning theory as a guiding framework to examine teaching and learning in literacy-related contexts. These contexts include a range of literacy practices, participants, and settings. Authors examine how teachers respond to multicultural texts, how adults guide children to appropriate academic discourse, how children engage in meaningfultalk about texts-or avoid that talk, and how researchers write up and position themselves and their participants...read more

An introduction and eight articles explore the possibility that language and culture will eventually not be an impediment to fulfilling the idea that America is a democracy.

Product Description: This practical, empowering book addresses the challenges facing educators, school administrators, and families in low socioeconomic status urban settings and presents field-tested strategies for promoting reading, writing, and oral language success...read more

Product Description: Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide more effective literacy instruction to K-9 students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds...read more

Product Description: In a departure from traditional paradigms, in this work Latinos examine their own experiences in US schools and offer theories born from positions of expertise and first-hand knowledge as researchers and educators.

Product Description: This text raises questions about the privileged discourse of schooling, then reports research-based solutions. The authors, concerned about lives and literacies traditionally excluded from public-sector classrooms and the resulting disenfranchisement, propose an alternative set of literacies...read more

This collection of reports and studies focuses on the long-term growth of literacy skills. The contributors explore the ways that formal education supports the growth of literacy and also show that literacy can be encouraged outside of formal educational settings.

Product Description: What can dropping a ping-pong ball down a pant leg tell us about the social class and ethnic tracking in public schools? How can a cab ride during a blizzard in New York City project another rationale for schooling? When do children's questions about flying whales on videotape suggest new ways to teach literacy? Using stories from his everyday life, Patrick Shannon student, teacher, and parent--challenges traditional thinking about learning, literacy, and life...read more