Critical Literacies: Global and Multicultural Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Bogum Yoon (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 187
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers comprehensive coverage of critical literacies by pursuing a balanced approach to theory, research, and practice. By clarifying the gaps among the frameworks of critical literacies, the author discusses new ways of approaching them from global and multicultural perspectives and provides an instructional model of critical global literacies that draws on her own experience and an extensive literature review. This insightful book also documents teachers’ case studies, focusing on their voices and instructional approaches in diverse classrooms. The author critically analyses the case studies and offers important suggestions for future research and practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-13
Rationale for the Project....Pages 15-23
Theoretical Foundation of Critical Literacies and Global and Multicultural Education....Pages 25-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Case Studies in the High School Classroom....Pages 59-77
Case Studies in the Middle School Classroom....Pages 79-104
Case Studies in the Elementary Classroom....Pages 105-117
Understanding Teachers’ Instruction from Broader Perspectives....Pages 119-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Across the Curriculum and the Text....Pages 147-161
Future Research and Practice....Pages 163-171
Conclusion....Pages 173-178

✦ Subjects

Literacy