Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism

Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Le Moyne College, USA.Althier M. Lazar, Saint Joseph’s University, USA.

• Foreword, Lee Gunderson.Section I: Theoretical Frame.Chapter 1. Frameworks for Promoting Multicultural Literacies: Moving Toward Educational Justice, Georgia Earnest García and Arlette Ingram Willis.Chapter 2. Multicultural Beliefs and Practices of Early Childhood Practitioners: A Qualitative Analysis of Scope and Complexity, Jyotsna Pattnaik.Section II: New Literacies.Chapter 3. Monocultural Literacy: The Power of Print, Pedagogy, and Epistemological Blindness, Dawnene D. Hassett and Carl A. Grant.Chapter 4. The Possibilities of Social Equity Literacy Teaching in an Era of Accountability: What the Narratives of Two Urban Teachers Reveal, Althier M. Lazar, Danielle Nicolino and Tracie Sanlin.Chapter 5. Mapping Critical Media Literacy onto Iterative Remix Practice, Kedrick James.Section III: Power Issues.Chapter 6. The Nexus of Critical and Digital Literacies: I Have a Voice and I'm Gonna Use It, Rachel Brown.Chapter 7. Low-SES ELLs' New Literacies Outside School: Attitudes, Access, and Agency, Guofang Li.Chapter 8. Literacy Capital in Two Immigrant Families: Longitudinal Case Studies, Catherine Compton-Lilly and Rohany Nayan.Section IV: Literacy and Culture.Chapter 9. Cultural Issues Related to Teaching Reading, Jon Reyhner and Ward Cockrum.Chapter 10. Best Practice(s)? The Cultural Discourse of Developmentalism in American Early Education: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, Diane M. Hoffman and Chenyu Wang.Chapter 11. Culturally Compelling Genre Teaching: Inviting All Learners to Understand and Use Genre Knowledge, Kathleen A. Hinchman and Fenice B. Boyd.Chapter 12. Risk the Leap: Connect and Communicate With Immigrant Families for the Education of Their Children, Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt.Section V: Connecting With Minority Perspectives.Chapter 13. How the Children of Cross-National Marriage Families Become Bilingual: An Ecological Systems Perspective, Yu-Ching Yeh and Hsiang-Ju Ho.Chapter 14. Cultural Literacy Practices in U.S. Public Schools: Voices of Pakistani Immigrant Parents, Fawzia Reza and Jyotsna Pattnaik.Chapter 15. Literacy Engagement in Refugee Families: Connecting Practices Across Contexts, Sunita Singh.Section VI: Teacher Education.Chapter 16. From Minding the Gaps to Mending the Gaps: Lessons from Community-Based Learning in Adolescent Literacy Methods Courses, Diane Zigo and Christopher Gorton.Chapter 17. Beyond Pedagogy in Teacher Education: Developing Teacher Candidates' Linguistic Knowledge of English and Students' Native Languages, Shelley Hong Xu.Chapter 18. Critical Conversations in Teacher Education: Using Video Analysis to Discuss the Identity Positions of Preservice Teachers, Amy Vetter, Melissa Schieble and Mark Meacham.Chapter 19. How Are We Going to Be Testing That? Challenges to Implementing Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction, Rebecca Powell, Susan Cantrell and Pamela Correll.Author Biographies.