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Contents: A. Luke, Foreword. E.B. Moje, D.G. O'Brien, Preface. Part I:Framing Secondary and Adolescent Literacy Research.D.W. Moore, J.E. Readance, Situating Secondary School Literacy Research. D.G. O'Brien, E.B. Moje, R.A. Stewart, Exploring the Context of Secondary Literacy: Literacy in People's Everyday School Lives. Part II:Cases of Secondary and Adolescent Literacy.Section I:Cases That Seek to Interpret.D.R. Dillon, D.G. O'Brien, M. Volkmann, Reading, Writing, and Talking to Get Work Done in Biology. E.G. Sturtevant, V.P. Duling, R.E. Hall, "I've Run a 4,000 Person Organization...And It's Not Nearly This Intense...": A Three-Year Case Study of Content Literacy in High School Mathematics. Section II:Cases That Seek to Reform.D.G. O'Brien, R. Springs, D. Stith, Engaging At Risk Students: Literacy Learning in a High School Literacy Lab. B.J. Guzzeti, Texts and Talk: The Role of Gender in Learning Physics. Section III:Cases That Seek to Interrupt.R.A. Stewart, Looking Back at Mr. Weller: A Personal Retrospective. K.A. Hinchman, P. Zalewski, "She Puts All These Words in It": Language Learning for Two Students in Tenth-Grade Social Studies. E.B. Moje, D.J. Willes, K. Fassio, Constructing and Negotiating Literacy in the Writer's Workshop: Literacy Teaching and Learning in Seventh Grade. S.F. Oates, Living as an Everyday Practice. M.M. Kelly, The Education of African-American Youth: Literacy Practices and Identity Representation in Church and School. Part III:Commentaries.D.E. Alvermann, Reading Gender and Positionality Into the Nine Case Studies: A Feminist Poststructuralist Perspective. D. Bloome, Boundaries on the Construction of Literacy in Secondary Classrooms: Envisioning Reading and Writing in a Democratic and Just Society.
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Elizabeth Birr Moje, David G. O'Brien
Summary
Explores & represents through a series of cases & commentaries how & why secondary school teachers & students use literacy (speaking, listening, reading, writing, & performing) in formal & informal settings, & how these literacies are negotiated & used.<
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"I have long thought that content literacy research needed more 'bite' and this book provides it. At last we have a book that includes critical, cultural, feminist, interpretive, and postmodern research and that will provide its readers with a richer understanding of secondary students' literacy development....This helps the field close the chapter on the era of technical rationality; fortunately, it does not do so by ignoring our past concerns but by putting those concerns in historical perspective and by directing our attention to the literacy demands of today's postmodern world."—Mary H. SawyerState University of New York, College at New Paltz
