Literacy in Times of Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

Practices and Perspectives
Redaktion: Macgillivray, Laurie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On the frontline of critical issues in education today, this volume covers new ground for teachers and teacher educators for whom crisis is a daily part of their work. Exploring the relationship between crisis and literacy, its aims are to improve educators' ability to recognize, cope with, and avoid crisis, and to advance their understanding of the dynamic relationship between crisis and cultural, historical, and political literacy practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135237172
• Artikelnr.: 49984155

Autorenporträt

Laurie MacGillivray is Professor of Literacy in the College of Education at the University of Memphis.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Personal Prologue
Chapter 1: Introduction: Examining Crisis, Laurie MacGillivray and Devon
Brenner
Commentator Introductions, Tracy Sweeney (Early Career Teacher), Jane Fung
(Veteran Teacher) and Elizabeth Moje (Teacher Educator)
Part I: Reading and Writing in Times of Crisis
Chapter 2: Making Contact in Times of Crisis: Literacy Practices in a
Post-Katrina World, April Whatley Bedford and Devon Brenner
Chapter 3: "Hallelujah!" Bible-based Literacy Practices of Children Living
in a Homeless Shelter, Laurie MacGillivray
Chapter 4: Reactions to Divorce: Communication and Child Writing Practices,
Gisele Ragusa
Chapter 5: When daddy goes to prison: Examining crisis through fanfiction
and poetry, Mary K. Thompson
Chapter 6: Reading and Writing Teenage Motherhood: Changing Literacy
Practices and Developing Identities, Kara L. Lycke
Chapter 7: Disability Identification: Shifts in Home Literacy Practices,
Gisele Ragusa
Part II: Crises Arising from Literate Practices
Chapter 8: Finding Husbands, Finding Wives: How Being Literate Creates
Crisis, Loukia K. Sarroub
Chapter 9: A State Take-Over: The Language of a School District Crisis,
Rebecca Rogers and Kathryn Pole
Chapter 10: Brewing a Crisis: Language, Educational Reform, and the Defense
of a Nation, Susan Florio-Ruane
Part III: Reflecting on Crises and Literacy
Chapter 11 Commentators' Insights, Tracy Sweeney (Early Career Teacher),
Jane Fung (Veteran Teacher) and Elizabeth Moje (Teacher Educator)
List of Contributors