Literacy in African American communities [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778856403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001
• ISBN: 1-4106-0565-5; 9786612324703; 1-282-32470-5; 0-585-34937-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HarrisJoyce L; KamhiAlan G. <1950->; PollockKaren E
• Disciplina: 379.2/4/08996073
• Soggetti: African Americans - Education; Literacy - United States
• 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 and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Public and Personal Meanings of Literacy; Chapter 2 "Come Sit Down and Let Mama Read": Book Reading Interactions Between African American Mothers and Their Infants; Chapter 3 Spoken and Written Narrative Development: African American Preschoolers as Storytellers and Storymakers; Chapter 4 Emergent Literacy: Home-School Connections; Chapter 5 Literacy in the African Diaspora: Black Caribbean American Communities; Chapter 6 Reading the Typography of Text; Chapter 7 The Path to Reading Success or Failure: A Choice for the New MillenniumChapter 8 Reading Performance and Dialectal Variation; Chapter 9 Language Variation and Literacy Acquisition in African American Students; Chapter 10 From the Pews to the Classrooms: Influences of the African American Church on Academic Literacy; Chapter 11 Design and Delivery Issues for Literacy Programs Serving African American Adults; Chapter 12 Effects of Structure Strategy Instruction on Text Recall in Older African American Adults; Chapter 13 An Age-Related View of Computer Literacy for Adult African AmericansChapter 14 Coming Full Circle: Some Circumstances Pertaining to Low Literacy Achievement Among African Americans; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young and old--are frequently the focus of public discourse about literacy. In a society that values a rather sophisticated level of literacy, they are among those who are most disadvantaged by low literacy achievement. Literacy in African American Communities contributes a fresh perspective by revealing how social history and cultural values converge to influence African Americans' literacy values and practices, acknowledging that lit