Many Pathways to Literacy

Who are the teachers in children's literacy lives beyond their school teachers and parents? This text is a compilation of studies conducted in a variety of cross-cultural contexts where children learn language and literacy with siblings, grandparents, peers and community members. Focusing on the knowledge and skills of children often invisible to educators, these illuminating studies highlight how children skillfully draw from their varied cultural and linguistic worlds to make sense of new experiences. The experienced team of contributors provides powerful demonstrations of the generative activity of young children and their mediating partners - family members, peers and community members - as they syncretize languages, literacies and cultural practices from varied contexts. Through studies grounded in home, school, community school, nursery and church settings, we see how children create for themselves radical forms of teaching and learning in ways that are not typically recognized, understood or valued in schools. The book challenges readers to examine assumptions and cultural stereotypes about literacy learning as well as their own teaching practices and beliefs. It should be useful reading for teachers, teacher educators, researchers and policy makers who seek to understand the many pathways to literacy and use that knowledge to affect real change in schools.

ISBN 0415306175   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780415306171 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 408 Imprint Routledge Falmer   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 19 Feb 2004   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress LB1139.5.L   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY 372.6   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

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		Notes on contributors
		Foreword by Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez
		Acknowledgements
		Introduction : syncretic literacy studies : starting points by Eve Gregory and Susi Long and Dinah Volk		1
1		A sociocultural approach to learning by Eve Gregory and Susi Long and Dinah Volk		6
Pt. I		The family context : siblings and grandparents		21
2		Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings by Dinah Volk and Martha De Acosta		25
3		Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home by Rose Drury		40
4		'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London by Ann Williams		52
5		Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age by Clare Kelly		66
6		Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? by Irma M. Olmedo		77
Pt. II		Friends as Teachers		89
7		Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy by Susi Long and Donna Bell and Jim Brown		93
8		Community school pupils reinterpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers by Charmian Kenner		105
9		'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers by Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory		117
10		Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts by Manjula Datta		129
11		Learning to be just : interactions of White working class peers by Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley		142
Pt. III		Learning in community settings		155
12		Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community by Alessandro Duranti and Elinor Ochs and Elia K. Ta'ase		159
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