Expanding Literacies in Education
About the Book Series
The Expanding Literacies in Education Series features books that highlight the changing landscape and explore new directions and theoretical tools in literacy studies as it is transforming education—including material, embodied, affective, and global emphases; digital and virtual worlds; and transcultural and cosmopolitan spaces. Some books in the series locate emerging literacies in practices that extend or trouble their historical uses and functions. Others cross disciplinary borders, bringing new epistemologies to bear on evolving practices that question the very foundations of literacy scholarship. Polemical and forward-looking, encompassing public and vernacular pedagogies as well as formal education, these books engage researchers, graduate students, and teacher educators with new and emerging theoretical approaches to literacy practices in all of their complexities, challenges, and possibilities.
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Reclaiming Powerful Literacies: New Horizons for Critical Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
By Rebecca Rogers
October 25, 2017
Offering a unique, reflexive framework for Critical Discourse Analysis focused on discourses of hope, transformation, and liberation, this book showcases a variety of powerful literacies in action. Drawing from original research in a range of public, educational spaces across the lifespan—from ...
Literacy Lives in Transcultural Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Rahat Zaidi, Jennifer Rowsell
July 06, 2017
Combining language research with digital, multimodal, and critical literacy, this book uniquely positions issues of transcultural spaces and cosmopolitan identities across an array of contexts. Studies of everyday diasporic practices across places, spaces, and people’s stories provide authentic ...
Literacy and Mobility: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College
1st Edition
By Brice Nordquist
May 03, 2017
Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from new ...
Reading Students' Lives: Literacy Learning across Time
1st Edition
By Catherine Compton-Lilly
August 19, 2016
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 ...
Literacies, Learning, and the Body: Putting Theory and Research into Pedagogical Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Grace Enriquez, Elisabeth Johnson, Stavroula Kontovourki, Christine A. Mallozzi
October 26, 2015
The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for interpreting, building on, and inquiring into the range of ways people communicate and express themselves as literate beings. The contributors investigate ...
Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning, and Love
1st Edition
By Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
October 19, 2015
Grounded in both theory and practice, with implications for both, this book is about children’s perspectives on the borders that society erects, and their actual, symbolic, ideational and metaphorical movement across those borders. Based on extensive ethnographic data on children of immigrants (...
Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility
1st Edition
By Barbara Comber
August 10, 2015
How can teachers ensure a pedagogy of possibility underpinned by social justice, and what has literacy got to do with this? This book explores the positive synergies between critical literacy and place-conscious pedagogy. Through rich classroom research it introduces and demonstrates how a ...