Educating for Language and Literacy Diversity: Mobile Selves
β Scribed by Mastin Prinsloo, Christopher Stroud (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 231
- Series
- Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls. This book examines everyday forms of talk and writing in relation to standardised forms and schooling expectations to suggest ways forward in educational discourse.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Classroom Constructions of Language and Literacy Activity....Pages 23-44
What is Quechua Literacy for? Ideological Dilemmas in Intercultural Bilingual Education in the Peruvian Andes....Pages 45-72
Growth of Communicative Competence in a Dynamic African Context: Challenges for Developmental Assessment....Pages 73-96
Moving between Ekasi and the Suburbs: the Mobility of Linguistic Resources in a South African De(re)segregated School....Pages 97-115
Shades, Voice and Mobility: Remote Communities Resist and Reclaim Linguistic and Educational Practices in Ethiopia....Pages 116-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Marginalised Knowledges and Marginalised Languages for Epistemic Access to Piaget and Vygotskyβs Theories....Pages 137-152
Reassembling the Literacy Event in Shirley Brice Heathβs Ways with Words....Pages 153-172
Recontextualising Research, Glocalising Practice....Pages 173-192
Xenophobia and Constructions of the Other....Pages 193-205
Bodies of Language and Languages of Bodies: South African Puzzles and Opportunities....Pages 206-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-220
β¦ Subjects
Language Education;Literacy;Language Teaching;Sociolinguistics
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