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Gender, Literacy, and Empowerment in Morocco
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 148.00This book's concept concerns the positive correlation between literacy and women's development and empowerment in developing countries. more...
Telling Pieces
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 42.95Telling Pieces is an exploration of how pre-adolescent middle-school children develop a knowledge and understanding of the conventions of art (art as literacy) and how they use this knowledge to create representations of their lives in a small midwestern U.S. town. Beginning with an overview of social semiotics and emergent literacy theorizing,... more...
Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 100.00Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers. This book observes individuals performing similar tasks in their first and their foreign language and invites readers with an interest in foreign language acquisition to follow the same learners in their... more...
Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 55.95In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing body of Bourdieusian-inspired research in various sectors... more...
Dangerous Potential of Reading
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 154.00This book examines the role of literacy, reading and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature. more...
Global Linguistic Flows
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 49.95Located at the intersection of sociolinguistics and Hip Hop Studies, this cutting-edge book moves around the world ? spanning Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the European Union ? to explore Hip Hop cultures, youth identities, the politics of language, and the simultaneous processes of globalization and localization. Focusing closely on language,... more...
Words, Words, Words
Stenhouse Publishers 1999; US$ 19.35Do your teachers spend hours creating word lists and weekly vocabulary tests only to find that students have ?forgotten? the words by the following week? Words, Words, Words describes the research that changed the way Janet Allen and many other teachers teach vocabulary. It provides educators with a strong research base, detailed classroom-based lessons,... more...
Becoming a Literacy Leader
Stenhouse Publishers 2006; US$ 18.00At a time when all administrators are urged to be literacy leaders, Jennifer Allen's book provides an insider's view of leadership, and how to create an environment that fosters professional development. Becoming a Literacy Leader chronicles Jennifer's move to a new school and a new job as a literacy specialist where she found herself tackling everything... more...
As the World Turns
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 154.95Given the increasing urbanization of the world's population, how people thrive and survive in high density urban environments is a topic of profound interest to nation states and governments. Books have focused on poverty and place and geography of opportunity, questioning the influence of neighborhood environs on the future... more...
What to Read When
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.95Read Pam Allyn's posts on the Penguin Blog The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives. In What to Read When , award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for children to begin to reflectively engage with and understand... more...









