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Many pathways to literacy : young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities / edited by Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415306175
  • 9780415306171
  • 0415306167
  • 9780415306164
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.6 22
LOC classification:
  • LB1139.5.L35 M37 2004
Contents:
Foreword / Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez -- Introduction : syncretic literacy studies : starting points / Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk -- 1. A sociocultural approach to learning / Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk -- Pt. I. The family context : siblings and grandparents -- 2. Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings / Dinah Volk and Martha De Acosta -- 3. Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home / Rose Drury -- 4. 'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London / Ann Williams -- 5. Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age / Clare Kelly -- 6. Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? / Irma M. Olmedo -- Pt. II. Friends as Teachers -- 7. Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy / Susi Long, Donna Bell and Jim Brown -- 8. Community school pupils reinterpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers / Charmian Kenner -- 9. 'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers / Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory -- 10. Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts / Manjula Datta -- 11. Learning to be just : interactions of White working class peers / Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley -- Pt. III. Learning in community settings -- 12. Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community / Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs and Elia K. Ta'ase -- 13. Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school / Leena Helavaara Robertson -- 14. The African American Church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children / Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards -- 15. His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church / Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black -- 16. Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children / Mary Eunice Romero -- Conclusion : many pathways : implications of syncretic literacy studies for practice and research / Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk.
Summary: "Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-244) and index.

Foreword / Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez -- Introduction : syncretic literacy studies : starting points / Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk -- 1. A sociocultural approach to learning / Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk -- Pt. I. The family context : siblings and grandparents -- 2. Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings / Dinah Volk and Martha De Acosta -- 3. Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home / Rose Drury -- 4. 'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London / Ann Williams -- 5. Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age / Clare Kelly -- 6. Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? / Irma M. Olmedo -- Pt. II. Friends as Teachers -- 7. Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy / Susi Long, Donna Bell and Jim Brown -- 8. Community school pupils reinterpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers / Charmian Kenner -- 9. 'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers / Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory -- 10. Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts / Manjula Datta -- 11. Learning to be just : interactions of White working class peers / Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley -- Pt. III. Learning in community settings -- 12. Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community / Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs and Elia K. Ta'ase -- 13. Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school / Leena Helavaara Robertson -- 14. The African American Church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children / Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards -- 15. His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church / Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black -- 16. Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children / Mary Eunice Romero -- Conclusion : many pathways : implications of syncretic literacy studies for practice and research / Eve Gregory, Susi Long and Dinah Volk.

"Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive."--Publisher description.

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