Vieira

Writing for Love and Money

How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on research with transnational families in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and North America, Writing for Love and Money tells the story of how families separated across borders write¿and learn new ways of writing¿in pursuit of love and money.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780190877323
• ISBN-10: 0190877324
• Artikelnr.: 57390944

Autorenporträt

Kate Vieira is Associate Professor and the Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former elementary and high school teacher, she is the author of American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and numerous essays and articles on writing. Her work has been recognized by a Spencer/National Academy of Education postdoctoral fellowship, a CCCC Chair's Research Initiative Grant, and a Fulbright Scholar fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Literacy Learning in Immigrants' Homelands
Chapter One: What's New about Writing for Love and Money?
Chapter Two: Writing for Love and Money on Three Continents
Chapter Three: Learning to Log On: From Post to Internet in Brazil
Chapter Four: Learning Languages: From Soviet Union to European Union in Latvia
Chapter Five: Teaching Homeland Family: Love and Money in the U.S.
Conclusion: Migration-Driven Literacy Learning in Uncertain Times
Afterword: The Mothers