Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context Contributor(s): Cumming, Alister (Editor) |
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ISBN: 113878804X ISBN-13: 9781138788046 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Multicultural Education - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Language Arts & Disciplines |
Dewey: 428.007 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.83 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several, interrelated factors that support the development of adolescents' literacies in multilingual contexts: support from educators, community groups, families, and peers; recognition of the multi-faceted complexity of literacy through multiple, complementary methods of research and assessment; approaches to pedagogy that engage learners' zones of proximal development in humanistic and purposeful ways; and promoting students' vocabulary knowledge, strategies for reading, writing, and learning, and orientations to engaging with epistemic purposes of literacy critically, through multiple media, and with self-confidence. |