Culturally Contested Literacies - America''s 'Rainbow Underclass' and Urban Schools

Zusatztext "This book contains important insights for individuals interested in urban education, the challenges of immigrant families, and the interrelationship between race, gender, and social class. Highly readable and theoretically based, this book should serve as a model of effective ethnographic research." – CHOICE, September 2008, Vol. 46 No. 1 Informationen zum Autor Guofang Li is Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Klappentext Culturally Contested Literacies examines the home and school literacy experiences of children from a uniquely socio-cultural perspective, including vivid, detailed case studies describing the lives and literacy practices of six families. Zusammenfassung Culturally Contested Literacies examines the home and school literacy experiences of children from a uniquely socio-cultural perspective, including vivid, detailed case studies describing the lives and literacy practices of six families. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: America’s 'Rainbow Underclass' and Inner-city Schooling 1. Where the Stories Began: The City and the Families 2. Literacy and Culture in School 3. Being Vietnamese, Becoming Somebody 4. 'We are not African American, We are Sudanese American' 5. Being White, Being the Majority in the Minority 6. Multicultural Families and Multiliteracies: Tensions, Conformity, and Resistance to Urban Schooling 7. Culturally Contested Literacies and the Education of America’s 'Rainbow Underclass'

Product details

• Authors: Guofang Li, Guofang (University of British Columbia Li, Li Guofang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9780415955645
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95564-5
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Moral and social purpose of education, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy