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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765603903321

Autore

Cruickshank Ken.

Titolo

Teenagers, literacy and school : researching in multilingual contexts / / Ken Cruickshank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2006

New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-22004-9

1-134-22005-7

1-280-54915-7

9786610549153

0-203-01543-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

302.2244089927094

428.0071/2

Soggetti

Literacy - Social aspects - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.)

Linguistic minorities - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.)

Children of minorities - Education - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.)

Arabs - Books and reading - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Haf-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Part I: Parallel lines: Home and school literacy; 1 Patterns of community literacy; 2 Pathway(s) to literacy; 3 Change and literacy practices: Teenagers and technology; 4 Mediation in community and school literacy; 5 Conflict and control: Literacy as management; 6 Identity, place and literacy; 7 No single factor: Literacy and disadvantage; 8 No single answer: What schools can and can't do; 9 Researching in multillingual/multicultural contexts

10 A harbourful of yachts: Making sense of literacy research11 Researching reading and writing in homes and schools; Epilogue; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families and their community, focusing on the role of



literacy in their daily lives and the differences between home and school. The author looks at the conflict between expectations and practices at school and in the home, arguing that problems are inevitable where class and cultural differences exist.Emerging themes include:how literacy practices in the community are undergoing rapid change due to global developments in technologyhow the patterns of written and spoken language i