Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate - A Window Into Identity Construction, Transnationality, and Schooling

This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames. Drawing on reports from five years of an ongoing longitudinal research project involving students from immigrant families across their elementary school years, each chapter explores a unique set of questions about the students' experiences and offers a rich data set of observations, interviews, and student-created artifacts. Authors apply different sociocultural, sociomaterial, and sociopolitical frameworks to better understand the dimensions of the children's experiences. The multitude of approaches applied demonstrates how viewing the same data through distinct lenses is a powerful way to uncover the differences and comparative uses of these theories. Through such varied lenses, it becomes apparent how the complexities of lived experiences inform and improve our understanding of teaching and learning, and how our understanding of multifaceted literacy practices affects students' social worlds and identities.

Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate is a much-needed resource for scholars, professors, researchers, and graduate students in language and literacy education, English education, and teacher education.

Summary

This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames.

Product details

• Authors: Yao-Kai Chi, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Catherine Shedrow Compton-Lilly, Compton-Lilly Catherine, Dana Hagerman, Laura Hamman-Ortiz, Jieun Kim, Kim Jieun, Sun Young Lee, Kristin Papoi, Erin Quast, Stephanie Shedrow, Brooke Ward Taira, Bingjie Zheng
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2022
• EAN: 9781032133034
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213303-4
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; EDUCATION / General, Education, EDUCATION / Research, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Literacy strategies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts