Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context

Alister Cumming (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012

This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several, interrelated factors that support the development of adolescents’ literacies in multilingual contexts: support from educators, community groups, families, and peers; recognition of the multi-faceted complexity of literacy through multiple, complementary methods of research and assessment; approaches to pedagogy that engage learners’ zones of proximal development in humanistic and purposeful ways; and promoting students’ vocabulary knowledge, strategies for reading, writing, and learning, and orientations to engaging with epistemic purposes of literacy critically, through multiple media, and with self-confidence.

• Curatore: Alister Cumming
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Research in Education
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 260 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 650 gr.
• EAN: 9780415898904

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