African Literacies

Author : Elaine Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134492275

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African American Literacies by Elaine Richardson Pdf

African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture. Drawing on personal experience, Elaine Richardson provides a compelling account of the language and literacy practices of African-American students. The book analyses the problems encountered by the teachers of AAVE speakers, and offers African American centred theories and pedagogical methods of addressing these problems. Richardson builds on recent research to argue that teachers need not only to recognise the value and importance of African-American culture, but also to use African-American English when teaching AAVE speakers standard English. African-American Literacies offers a holistic and culturally relevant approach to literacy education, and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the literacy practices of African-American students.

Author : Elaine B. Richardson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415268826

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African American Literacies by Elaine B. Richardson Pdf

This book addresses the literacy problems of African American students providing educators with an African American centred theory of rhetoric and composition.

Author : Ashraf Abdelhay,Yonas Mesfun Asfaha,Kasper Juffermans
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443868266

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African Literacies by Ashraf Abdelhay,Yonas Mesfun Asfaha,Kasper Juffermans Pdf

Africa is often depicted as the continent with the lowest literacy rates in the world. Moving beyond this essentialising representation, this volume explores African literacies within their complex and diverse multilingual and multiscriptal histories and contexts of use. The chapters examine contexts from the Maghreb to Mozambique and from Senegambia to the Horn of Africa and critically analyse multiple literacy genres and practices – from ancient manuscripts to instant messaging – in relation to questions of language-in-education and policy, livelihoods, Islamic scholarship, colonialism, translocal migration, and writing systems. As a whole, the book serves as an advanced introduction to language and society in Africa seen through the lens of literacy, and marks a unique contribution to scholarship in literacy studies offering a convenient collection of perspectives on and from Africa.

Author : Lamar L. Johnson,Gloria Boutte,Gwenda Greene,Dywanna Smith
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498583961

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African Diaspora Literacy by Lamar L. Johnson,Gloria Boutte,Gwenda Greene,Dywanna Smith Pdf

This book presents accounts of African diaspora literacy in action in school settings. Focusing specifically on the language, history, politics, economics, and cultural traditions of people in the African diaspora, the authors illuminate critical information missing from schools, teacher education, and English curricula.

Author : Barbara J. Guzzetti,Thomas Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136199189

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Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self by Barbara J. Guzzetti,Thomas Bean Pdf

Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world is changing the literacy needs and identities of students. This book explores the dynamic range of literacy practices that are reconstructing gender identities in both empowering and disempowering ways and the implications for local literacy classrooms. As gendered identities become less essentialist, are more often created in virtual settings, and are increasingly globalized, literacy educators need to understand these changes in order to effectively educate their students. The volume is organized around three themes: gender influences and identities in literacy and literature; gender influences and identities in new literacies practices; and gender and literacy issues and policies. The contributing authors, from North America, Europe, and Australia offer an international perspective on literacy issues and practices. This volume is an important contribution to understanding the impact of the local and the global on how today’s youth are represented and positioned in literacy practices and polices within the context of 21st century global/cosmopolitan life.

Author : Elaine Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134331628

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Hiphop Literacies by Elaine Richardson Pdf

Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture. Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts such as rap music, song lyrics, electronic and digital media, oral performances and cinema and brings together issues and concepts that are explored in the disciplines of folklore, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, discourse studies and New Literacies Studies.

Author : Guofang Li
Publisher : IAP
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607529149

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Multicultural Families, Home Literacies, and Mainstream Schooling by Guofang Li Pdf

Lack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students’ learning outside school has contributed to the difficulties educators encounter when trying to embrace cultural diversity. Many educators do not have the knowledge base about immigrant and minority children’s culturally-specific ways of learning in nonschool settings. Given the changing cultural landscapes in today’s schools, we have an imperative to develop more situated understandings of immigrant and minority children’s literacy learning experiences embedded in the social and cultural fabrics of their everyday lives outside school. This volume of research meets this important need in the field. It not only focuses on the complexity of literacy learning in diverse home contexts, but also examines how literacy is practiced and lived in multiple ways within families of various backgrounds including those of Asian, African and African-American, Hispanic, White European and mixed heritages. In addition, it explores how these various culturally embedded home practices will inform school education and policy making in a larger socio-political context. The book makes an original and significant contribution to the fields of literacy education and school, home, and community partnerships. Since immigrant and minority families’ literacy activities and the cultural contexts of their practices at home are not readily accessible to school personnel, program developers, policy makers or even researchers and educators, this book will serve as an important resource for teachers, practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, teacher educators, and university researchers who are in the fields of literacy education, family literacy and new literacy studies, minority and/or immigrant education, and second language education.

Author : Alan Cliff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031586798

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Thirty Years of Literacies Testing at the University of Cape Town by Alan Cliff Pdf

Author : James V. Hoffman,Yetta M. Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135845766

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Changing Literacies for Changing Times by James V. Hoffman,Yetta M. Goodman Pdf

Offering the wisdom that only experience and expertise in the field can bring, this book takes a critical look into the present and the future of literacy as envisioned by leading reading researchers. The lead author of each chapter is a distinguished reading researcher elected by their peers into the Reading Hall of Fame. A key message in this book is that literacy professionals must take an active role to shape change.

Author : Vally Lytra,Dinah Volk,Eve Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317581260

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Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities by Vally Lytra,Dinah Volk,Eve Gregory Pdf

Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associated with religion in a variety of sites of learning and socialization, namely homes, religious education classes, places of worship, and faith-related schools and secular schools. Contributors engage with a diverse set of complex multiethnic and religious communities, and investigate the rich multilingual, multiliterate and multi-scriptal practices associated with religion which children and adolescents engage in with a range of mediators, including siblings, peers, parents, grandparents, religious leaders, and other members of the religious community. The volume is organized into three sections according to context and participants: (1) religious practices at home and across generations, (2) religious education classes and places of worship and (3) bridging home, school and community. The edited book will be a valuable resource for researchers in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, socio-linguistics, intercultural communication, and early years, primary and secondary education.

Author : Cornelia Roux,Anne Becker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319995670

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Human Rights Literacies by Cornelia Roux,Anne Becker Pdf

This book adds impetus to the nexus between human rights, human rights education and material reality. The dissonance between these aspects is of growing concern for most human rights educators in various social contexts. The first part of the book opens up new discourses and presents new ontologies and epistemologies from scholars in human rights, human rights education and human rights literacies to critique and/or justify the understandings of human rights’ complex applications. Today’s rapidly changing social contexts and new languages attempting to understand ongoing dehumanization and violations, put enormous pressure on higher education, educators, individuals working in social sciences, policy makers and scholars engaged in curricula making.The second part demonstrates how global interactions between citizens from different countries with diverse understandings of human rights (from developed and developing democracies) question the link between human rights and it’s in(ex)clusive Western philosophies. Continuing inhumane actions around the globe reflect the failure of human rights law and human rights education in schools, higher education and society at large. The book shows that human rights education is no longer a blueprint for understanding human rights and its universal or contextual values presented for multicomplexial societies. The final chapters argue for new ontologies and epistemologies of human rights, human rights education and human rights literacies to open-up difficult conversations and to give space to dissonant and disruptive discourses. The many opportunities for human rights education and literacies lies in these conversations.

Author : R. Malatesha Joshi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783031262500

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Handbook of Literacy in Africa by R. Malatesha Joshi Pdf

This volume highlights the shortcomings concerning literacy development in Africa and collates the current available literature based on empirical research in various countries in a coherent manner. Further emphasized is how the current research can guide practical information to improve the literacy situation in Africa. The research studies will encompass various fields such as linguistics, neurosciences, and education and will provide future research directions and instructional recommendations to improve the literacy situation in Africa.

Author : Kathy A. Mills,Amy Stornaiuolo,Anna Smith,Jessica Zacher Pandya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315465234

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Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures by Kathy A. Mills,Amy Stornaiuolo,Anna Smith,Jessica Zacher Pandya Pdf

At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization of writing and literacies that is transforming daily life and education. The chapter topics—identified through academic conference networks, rigorous analysis, and database searches of trending themes—are organized thematically in five sections: Digital Futures Digital Diversity Digital Lives Digital Spaces Digital Ethics This is an essential guide to digital writing and literacies research, with transformational ideas for educational and professional practice. It will enable new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and to generate new themes of inquiry.

Author : Karin Barber
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253347299

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Africa's Hidden Histories by Karin Barber Pdf

'Africa's Hidden Histories' takes a private and personal look into the world of everyday Africans, as they put pen to paper. As it explores the innovative, intense, and sociable interest in reading and writing, the text opens new avenues for understanding a rich and hidden history of Africa's creative expression.

Author : Easton, Peter
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Literacy
ISBN : 9789230012304

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Sustaining literacy in Africa: developing a literate environment by Easton, Peter Pdf

This publication contributes, in the critical context of Africa, to the conceptual development of the notion of the literate environment--an essential element for the promotion of literacy. It brings knowledge and insights about literate environments, highlighting inter-related issues such as its definitions, previous undertakings, methods of assessment as well as interactions between the supply and demand sides of environments.--