Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities
Religion in Young Lives
Eve Gregory editor Vally Lytra editor Dinah Volk editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:14th Aug '20
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Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associated with religion in a variety of sites of learning and socialization, namely homes, religious education classes, places of worship, and faith-related schools and secular schools. Contributors engage with a diverse set of complex multiethnic and religious communities, and investigate the rich multilingual, multiliterate and multi-scriptal practices associated with religion which children and adolescents engage in with a range of mediators, including siblings, peers, parents, grandparents, religious leaders, and other members of the religious community. The volume is organized into three sections according to context and participants: (1) religious practices at home and across generations, (2) religious education classes and places of worship and (3) bridging home, school and community. The edited book will be a valuable resource for researchers in applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology, socio-linguistics, intercultural communication, and early years, primary and secondary education.
"This complex bringing together of work in a number of fields related to religion, education, identity and literacy practices offers an original contribution that can help those already working in perhaps some of these areas to bridge and link a range of perspectives in a global context."—Brian Street, King’s College London, UK
"This collection of strong ethnographies makes a significant contribution to the understanding of children’s many modes of learning in the context of their religious socialisation and is thus important reading for scholars and students in the fields of education, linguistics, anthropology,religious studies, diaspora studies, psychology, and sociology."—Eleanor Nesbitt, Uniersity of Warwick, Journal of Contemporary Religion
"By featuring participants from diverse ethnicities, faiths, age groups and linguistic backgrounds, the authors uncover a complex field of knowledge and possibilities, previously unavailable to teachers and researchers. They invite us to re-imagine culturally responsive teaching by reframing the narratives that attach themselves to religious artefacts."—Tran Nguyen Templeton and Haeny S Yoon, Teachers College, Columbia University, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
"[The editors'] aim, therefore, is for this edited collection to open a space for dialogue between practitioners in different learning contexts to share resources and practices that can be used to enhance literacy outcomes in and for future generations."—Elizabeth Gunn, Fine Print, the journal of the Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council
"This book provides insight into the binaries of religious and mainstream education and supports educatos to provide children with the chance to learn meaningfully."—Ambreen Shahriar, EAL Journal
ISBN: 9780367596484
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
260 pages