Making Literacy Real by Joanne Larson
Suitable for primary education students at undergraduate and graduate level who want to understand literacy theory and successfully apply it in the classroom, this work explores the breadth of this complex and important field, orientating literacy as a social practice, grounded in social, cultural, historical and political contexts of use.
`Joanne Larson and Jackie Marsh′s Literacy Learning is easily the most theoretically sophisticated and practically useful discussion of sociocultural and critical approaches to literacy learning that has appeared to date′ - James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgidge Professor of Reading, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Taking the position that literacy is grounded in social, cultural, and historical practices, researchers Larson and March present four alternative theoretical frameworks that offer teachers and teacher-researchers the opportunity to expand the relationship of theory to classroom practice. . . The novelty of this book is linked to the multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks by way of case studies approach. . . .This book is highly recommended for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in teacher education. -- CHOICE
Taking the position that literacy is grounded in social, cultural, and historical practices, researchers Larson and March present four alternative theoretical frameworks that offer teachers and teacher-researchers the opportunity to expand the relationship of theory to classroom practice. . . The novelty of this book is linked to the multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks by way of case studies approach. . . .This book is highly recommended for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in teacher education. -- CHOICE
Joanne Larson is Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education and Chair of the Teaching and Curriculum program at the University of Rochester’s Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, USA. She received her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. Larson’s ethnographic research examines how language and literacy practices mediate social and power relations in literacy events in schools and communities. She is currently collaborating with Rochester community residents on a participatory action research project examining changes associated with transforming a local corner store into a cornerstone of healthy living. Her book Radical Equality in Education: Starting Over in US Schooling (Routledge, 2014) makes the case for beginning with assumptions of equality instead of inequality in education. She is the editor of Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix, Second Edition (Lang, 2007) and co-editor with Jackie Marsh of Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (Sage, 2013). Larson′s journal publications include research articles in Research in the Teaching of English; Written Communication: Linguistics and Education; Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, and Discourse and Society. Jackie Marsh is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she conducts research on young children′s play and digital literacy practices in homes, communities and early years settings and primary schools. Her most recent publications include Changing Play: Play, Media and Commercial Culture from the 1950s to the Present Day (with Bishop, 2014) and Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy (edited with Larson, 2013). Jackie is an editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781412903318 |
| ISBN 10 | 1412903319 |
| Title | Making Literacy Real |
| Author | Joanne Larson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2005-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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