Learning From Urban Immigrant Youth About Academic Literacies

List of contents

Chapter 1. Framing Immigrant Youth and Academic Literacies
Chapter 2. Problem Solving in Academic Literacies
Chapter 3: Tracing the Development of Academic Literacies
Chapter 4: Exploring the Role of Knowledge in Academic Literacies
Chapter 5: Deconstructing the Academic Literacy Gap
Chapter 6. A Resource Approach to Academic Literacies: Leveraging Urban Immigrant Youths’ Epistemic Privilege
Chapter 7. Teaching and Researching Academic Literacies

About the author

Jie Y. Park is an assistant professor of Education at Clark University, USA.

Summary

This book reports on a two-year long, qualitative literacy case study of the academic literacies of first and second-generation immigrant youth in an afterschool tutoring program in South Bronx, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Jie Park, Jie (Clark University Park, Jie Y. Park
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367441470
• ISBN: 978-0-367-44147-0
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; New York, New York City, EDUCATION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Literacy strategies, Educational strategies and policy