Writing for Love and Money - How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction: Literacy Learning in Immigrants' Homelands


• Chapter One: What's New about Writing for Love and Money?


• Chapter Two: Writing for Love and Money on Three Continents


• Chapter Three: Learning to Log On: From Post to Internet in Brazil


• Chapter Four: Learning Languages: From Soviet Union to European Union in Latvia


• Chapter Five: Teaching Homeland Family: Love and Money in the U.S.


• Conclusion: Migration-Driven Literacy Learning in Uncertain Times


• Afterword: The Mothers

About the author

Kate Vieira is Associate Professor and the Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former elementary and high school teacher, she is the author of American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and numerous essays and articles on writing. Her work has been recognized by a Spencer/National Academy of Education postdoctoral fellowship, a CCCC Chair's Research Initiative Grant, and a Fulbright Scholar fellowship.

Summary

Based on research with transnational families in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and North America, Writing for Love and Money tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money.

Additional text

She proposes a view of literacy that might help teachers to teach it better and people to practice it better, namely that for everyone, literacy means reading and writing across changing socioeconomic and emotional contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Vieira, Kate (Associate Professor and the Susan J. Vieira
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190877323
• ISBN: 978-0-19-087732-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Philosophy & theory of education, Migration, immigration and emigration, Philosophy and theory of education, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum