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Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate

A Window into Identity Construction, Transnationality, and Schooling

Catherine Compton-Lilly author Sun Young Lee author Jieun Kim author Stephanie Shedrow author Dana Hagerman author Laura Hamman-Ortiz author Yao-Kai Chi author Kristin Papoi author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:6th May '22

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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.

"This timely volume…offer[s] much-needed insights for educators to understand the languages, literacies, cultures, and other assets that children from non-dominant backgrounds bring to their schooling….This volume offers precisely this proleptic lens to help educators see the past, reimagine the future, and act on the present to rewrite the trajectories of long-lasting inequities."

--From the Foreword by Guofang Li, University of British Columbia, Canada

ISBN: 9781032150253

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

174 pages