East is east, west is west? : home literacy, culture, and schooling / Guofang Li.
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TextSeries: Rethinking childhood ; v. 28.Publisher: New York : P. Lang, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0820461199
- 9780820461199
- 371.829951071
- LC3079 .L52 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.
1. Literacy, Learning, and Cross-cultural Schooling -- 2. Unfolding the Stories -- 3. Yang: The New Boy on the Block -- 4. Yue: Tuning to the New Rhythm -- 5. Derin: "I Can't!" -- 6. Amy: "I Want to Learn A, B, C!" -- 7. Home Literacy: What It Is and What It Means -- 8. The Meaning of Schooling in a Cross-cultural Context -- 9. Back to the School Setting and Beyond: Learning from the Children -- Epilogue: The Journey Continues.
"Focusing on four Chinese immigrant children's intersecting worlds of home literacy, culture, and schooling, Guofang Li brings the reader into the inner worlds of these children and their families through an ethnographic lens. Centering on the meanings that these children's home literacy practices and their beliefs about literacy have brought upon their school experiences, this book documents the complex, multifaceted nature of the different literacy practices of these children in their distinct family milieus. Li highlights the role of culture and family capital in shaping home literacy practices and schooling. The illustrations of the varied, but often frustrating home experiences counteract the schooled Eurocentric notion of literacy that may constrain and contradict immigrant children's learning outside of schools."--BOOK JACKET.
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