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Literacy Practices in Transition : Perspectives from the Nordic Countries / ed. by Anne Pitkänen-Huhta, Lars Holm.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Perspectives on Language and EducationPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781847698407
  • 9781847698414
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2/2440948 23
LOC classification:
  • LC156.S34 L58 2012
  • LC156.S34 L58 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Literacy Practices in Transition: Setting the Scene -- Part 1: Literacy and Identities in Transition -- 1 Narratives on Literacies: Adult Migrants’ Identity Construction in Interaction -- 2 Literacy in Negotiating, Constructing and Manifesting Identities: The Case of Migrant Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children in Sweden -- 3 Privileging Identity Positions and Multimodal Communication in Textual Practices: Intersectionality and the (Re)Negotiation of Boundaries -- Part 2 Local Practices in Transition -- 4 Multilingual Classrooms as Sites of Negotiations of Language and Literacy -- 5 Skills as Performances: Literacy Practices of Finnish Sixth Graders -- 6 Multimodality in the Science Classroom -- 7 Discourses of Literacy on an International Master’s Programme: Examining Students’ Academic Writing Norms -- Part 3 Policies and Practices in Transition -- 8 Localizing Supranational Concepts of Literacy in Adult Second Language Teaching -- 9 Teacher Refl ections Under Changing Conditions for Literacy Learning in Multicultural Schools in Oslo -- 10 Bilingual Teachers: Making a Difference? -- Afterword: On the Move – Transitions in Literacy Research
Summary: Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how the global and local meet in discourses and practices and how people need to (re)negotiate their way in the complex and messy spaces in which they move. The volume challenges current trends in the global standardization of language and literacy education. Instead, it promotes the idea of literacy as a multiple, multilingual, multimodal and constantly contestable and negotiable phenomenon, which calls for the development of language and literacy education that is sensitive to the needs and experiences of the individual actors.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Literacy Practices in Transition: Setting the Scene -- Part 1: Literacy and Identities in Transition -- 1 Narratives on Literacies: Adult Migrants’ Identity Construction in Interaction -- 2 Literacy in Negotiating, Constructing and Manifesting Identities: The Case of Migrant Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children in Sweden -- 3 Privileging Identity Positions and Multimodal Communication in Textual Practices: Intersectionality and the (Re)Negotiation of Boundaries -- Part 2 Local Practices in Transition -- 4 Multilingual Classrooms as Sites of Negotiations of Language and Literacy -- 5 Skills as Performances: Literacy Practices of Finnish Sixth Graders -- 6 Multimodality in the Science Classroom -- 7 Discourses of Literacy on an International Master’s Programme: Examining Students’ Academic Writing Norms -- Part 3 Policies and Practices in Transition -- 8 Localizing Supranational Concepts of Literacy in Adult Second Language Teaching -- 9 Teacher Refl ections Under Changing Conditions for Literacy Learning in Multicultural Schools in Oslo -- 10 Bilingual Teachers: Making a Difference? -- Afterword: On the Move – Transitions in Literacy Research

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Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how the global and local meet in discourses and practices and how people need to (re)negotiate their way in the complex and messy spaces in which they move. The volume challenges current trends in the global standardization of language and literacy education. Instead, it promotes the idea of literacy as a multiple, multilingual, multimodal and constantly contestable and negotiable phenomenon, which calls for the development of language and literacy education that is sensitive to the needs and experiences of the individual actors.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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