IRA's Literacy Studies Series
Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Researching Critical Media Literacy
1st Edition
By Donna E. Alvermann, Jennifer S. Moon, Margaret C. Hagwood, Margaret C. Hagood
August 01, 2002
This book is written for teachers, researchers, and theorists who have grown up in a world radically different from that of the students they teach and study. It considers the possibilities involved in teaching critical media literacy using popular culture, and explore what such teaching might look...
Reading, Writing, and Talking Gender in Literacy Learning
1st Edition
By Barbara J. Guzzetti, Josephine Peyto Young, Margaret M. Gritsavage, Laurie M. Fyfe, Marie Hardenbrook
August 01, 2002
Until now, there has been no systematic analysis or review of the research on gender and literacy. With all the media attention and research surveys surrounding gender bias and the inequities that continue to flourish in education, a synthesis of the research studies was needed to raise awareness ...
Students' Identities and Literacy Learning
1st Edition
By Sarah J. McCarthey, Ira
August 01, 2002
Educators will find in this book an opportunity to examine the multiple, dynamic identities of the students they instruct and to consider the ways in which all teachers and students are shaped by their social and cultural settings. The volume is the first to examine theories of identity and ...