Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students’ lives across time. The final book in a series of four that track a group of low-income African American students and their parents across a decade, it follows the same children into high school, bringing to the forefront issues and insights that are invisible in shorter-term projects. This is a free-standing volume that breaks new ground both theoretically and methodologically and has important implications for children, schools, and educational research. Its significant contributions include the unique longitudinal nature of the study, the lens it casts on family literacy practices during high school years, the close and situated look at the experiences of children from communities that have been historically underserved by schools, and the factors that alltoooften cause many of these children to move further and further away from school, eventually dropping out or failing to graduate.
Catherine Compton-Lilly is Professor of Literacy Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.
ContentsForeword: Nick HitchonChapter 1: Introducing Time Time in Educational ResearchTime in Educational PracticeConsidering TrajectoriesConsidering SpaceChapter 2: Marvin’s Story Through Three Temporal LensesLemke’s Timescales: Making Meaning Across TimeBakhtin’s Chronotope: Institutional Expectations and TimeBourdieu’s Habitus: Embodied Dispositions across TimeConclusionsChapter 3: David, Angela, & Bradford: Discourses over TimeThe Language that People Use to Situate Themselves within TimeThe Pace of Schooling and Temporal LanguageRepeated Stories over TimeConclusionsChapter 4: Alicia and her Family across TimeMaking Meaning across TimeAlicia and her FamilyRevisiting AliciaConclusionsChapter 5: Peter Becomes a Writer: The Development of Writing HabitusHabitus and FieldResearching Habitus Introducing PeterDeveloping Writing HabitusConclusionsChapter 6: Literate Trajectory as Chronotope: The Case of JermaineA Theoretical Framework for Trajectory: Bakhtin’s ChronotopeIntroducing JermaineThe Affordances of Chronotope for Making Sense of Jermaine’s Literate TrajectoryConclusionsChapter 7: Christy and I: Trajectories across TimeLayering Christy ConclusionsChapter 8: Temporal ConclusionsAfterword: Barbara ComberAppendix A: A Longitudinal MethodologyAppendix B: Case Study Families
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, USA) Compton-Lilly, Catherine (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Halverson, Erica (University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Catherine Compton-Lilly, Stephanie Shedrow, Dana Hagerman, Laura Hamman-Ortiz, Yao-Kai Chi, Jieun Kim, Sun Young Lee, Kristin Papoi, Erin Quast, Brooke Ward Taira, Bingjie Zheng
Candace Kuby, Karen Spector, Jaye Johnson Thiel, USA) Kuby, Candace (University of Missouri, USA) Spector, Karen (University of Alabama, USA) Johnson Thiel, Jaye (University of Georgia