Social Diversity within Multiliteracies: Complexity in Teaching and Learning [Hardcover]

Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered contexts and explores ways to foster learning and achievement for diverse students in various settings. Attending simultaneously to topics around two overarching and interrelated themeslanguages and language variations, and cultures, ethnicities, and identitiesthe chapter authors examine the roles that multiliteracies play in students lives in and out of classrooms. In Part I, readers are asked to examine beliefs and dispositions as related to different languages, language varieties, cultures, ethnicities, and identities. Part II engages readers in examining classroom and community practices related to different languages and language varieties, cultures, ethnicities, and identities.

Preface

Chapter 1: Reflections on the Past, Working within the Future : Advancing a Multiliteracies Theory and Pedagogy Fenice B. Boyd and Cynthia H. Brock

PART I: Exploring Languages, Language Varieties, Culture, Ethnicity, and Identities

Chapter 2: Language Study in Teacher Education: Cultivating Teachers Understandings of Language Variation Debra Goodman

Chapter 3: Deadly Ways to Learn: Language Variation, Ideology, and Learning Literacies Cynthia H. Brock, Jenni Carter, and Fenice B. Boyd

Chapter 4: My Life in Stories, My World in Pictures: A View of Multiliteracies from the Outside In Rachel G. Salas and Julie L. Pennington

Chapter 5: White Male Teachers Exploring Language, Literacy, andlƒ/