Child Cultures, Schooling, and Literacy

Global Perspectives on Composing Unique Lives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvAnne Haas Dyson,USA) Dyson, Anne Haas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Through analysis of case studies of young children (ages 3 to 8 years), situated in different geographic, cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic sites on six continents, this book examines the interplay of childhoods, schooling, and, literacies. Written language is situated within particular childhoods as they unfold in school. A key focus is on children’s agency in the construction of their own childhoods. The book generates diverse perspectives on what written language may mean for childhoods. Looking at variations in the complex relationships between official (curricular) visions and unofficial (child-initiated) visions of relevant composing practices and appropriate cultural resources, it offers, first, insight into how those relationships may change over time and space as children move through early schooling, and, second, understanding of the dynamics of schools and the experience of childhoods through which the local meaning of school literacy is formulated. Each case—each child in a particular sociocultural site—does not represent an essentialized nation or a people but, rather, a rich, processual depiction of childhood being constructed in particular local contexts and the role, if any, for composing.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-02-26
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt430 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor212
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138831520

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AcknowledgementsSECTION 1 Stories of Composing in Childhoods1 Introduction: Gathering Textual ChildrenAnne Haas Dyson 2 The Situated Cases: Child Agency, Cultural Resources, LanguageAnne Haas Dyson and case study authorsPrologueI. CASES FEATURING CHILD AGENCY: GARETH AND TA’VONGareth: The Reluctant WriterJackie MarshTa’Von: Negotiating Inclusion in a Stratified WorldAnne Haas DysonII. CASES FEATURING CULTURAL RESOURCES: DANTI, GUS, AND SHEELADanti: Glocalizing Dora the Explorer in Indonesia Sophie DewayaniGus: "I Can’t Write Anything"Barbara Comber and Lyn KerkhamSheela: Finding her VoiceUrvashi SahniIII. CASES FEATURING LANGUAGE: MIGUEL, NATALIA, AND RAFIKIMiguel the Artista: A Case of Mismatch and Misguided "Reform"Celia GenishiNatalia: "I want to speak Tata’s Language!" Learning and Awakening the Local Language Iliana ReyesRafiki: A Teacher-PupilEsther Mukewa LisanzaToward Knitting Together Tangled CasesAnne Haas DysonSECTION 2 Thematic Threads of Continuity and Contrast 3 The Relevance of Composing: Children’s Spaces for Social AgencyBarbara Comber4 Resources for ComposingPeggy J. Miller and Urvashi Sahni5 The Powers of Language: Toward Remixing Language Policy, Curricula, and Child IdentitiesCelia GenishiSECTION 3 On Composing Childhoods6 Making Space for Missing Childhoods: Implications for Theory, Policy, and PedagogyAnne Haas DysonConcluding Commentary Peggy J. Miller