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Expanding Literacies in Education Series

This series delves into the evolving landscape of literacy within education, exploring new theoretical tools and directions that are reshaping the field. It examines emerging literacies, encompassing material, embodied, affective, and global dimensions, alongside digital and virtual spaces. The books highlight how contemporary practices extend or challenge historical understandings of literacy. Aimed at researchers, graduate students, and teacher educators, this collection offers forward-looking perspectives on the complexities and possibilities of literacy studies today.

Literacy and Mobility
Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility
Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces
Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices

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  1. Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices

    Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context

    • 128 pages
    • 5 hours of reading

    Focusing on the videomaking practices of students in a dual language, under-resourced school, the book explores how children engage with their environments, construct their identities, and develop language and literacy skills through digital video production. It highlights the creative processes and educational outcomes of these practices, offering insights into the intersection of technology, culture, and learning in a contemporary classroom setting.

    Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices

  2. Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces

    Language, Learning, and Love

    • 148 pages
    • 6 hours of reading
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    This book about children's perspectives on the borders that society erects and their actual and symbolic movement across those borders speaks to critical social issues and debates about education, immigration, multilingualism, multiculturalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter One: Introduction and Overview Chapter Two: Blurring Borders at B-Club: Research, Theory, Practice Chapter Three: Seeing with our Hearts Chapter Four: A Pedagogy of Heart and Mind Chapter Five: Shining Lights in a Globalized World Chapter Six: Faces of Globalization: The Community Context Chapter Seven: Learning and Love Chapter Eight: Transculturation Chapter Nine: Translanguaging Chapter Ten: Transliteracies Chapter Eleven: Policy, Practice, and Possibilities: Imagining Teaching and Learning for a New World Appendix A: B-Club Kids Survey Responses 2012-13

    Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces

  3. Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility

    • 184 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Focusing on the intersection of critical literacy and place-conscious pedagogy, this book illustrates how engaging with specific local elements can enhance students' academic learning and literacy. It emphasizes a teaching approach that fosters social justice, highlighting the transformative potential of connecting education to the community and environment. Through systematic study, it advocates for a pedagogy that opens up possibilities for students, enriching their educational experiences and promoting equity.

    Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility

  4. Literacy and Mobility

    • 184 pages
    • 7 hours of reading

    Following students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school throughout their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs, this book employs analytical and methodological tools from new literacy and mobility studies to investigate students' patterns of movement and literacy practices in and across educational institutions, neighborhoods, cultures, and national borders.

    Literacy and Mobility