Re-Theorizing Literacy Practices: Complex Social and Cultural Contexts (Paperback)

1. Introduction  Part 1: Literacy as Social ? Reflecting Back and Moving Forward  2. Fashioning Literacy as Social  3. Literacy as a Social Practice: New Models and New Realities  4. Ideologies Languaged into Being: Examining Conversations on Schooled and Religious Literacies Ideologies Part 2: Literacy Practices and Language Ideologies  5. Making of narrative: Understanding young children’s story writing in social contexts  6. Ideological battles over Quechua literacy in Peru: From the authority of experts to the innovation of youth  Part 3: Literacy Practices Framed by Recognition of Complex Heteroglossic Social Contexts  7. Literacy Teaching and Learning in School as Polyphonic: A Close Examination of a Lesson Focused on Fun Home, the Graphic Memoir and Musical  8. Academic literacies as laminated assemblage and embodied semiotic becoming  Part 4: Literacy as Praxis in Complex Educational Contexts  9. Literacy research as ideological practice: knowledge, reflexivity and the researcher  10. Testing Practice in a Southern School  11. Reading Philosophy Critically: Agentive Classroom Enactment  12. Approaches to Academic Literacy Instruction: Classifications, Conflicts and New Directions  Part 5: Literacy and Personhood  13. Literacy and the Time Being  14. Faith, Culture and Identity: The everyday literacy practices  15. Examining our Blind Spots: Personhood, Literacy, and Power  Part 6: The Conversation Continues  16. Conclusion: Literacy as Social and Cultural in the Future Perfect Tense