Children In Immigrant Families Becoming Literate A Window Into Identity Construction Transnationality And Schooling | Education

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. |Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate A Window into Identity Construction Transnationality and Schooling | Education