Literacies Across Educational Contexts
ISBN: 0-9727507-2-X
Publication Date: October 2005
Brian Street , a pioneering figure in the New Literacy Studies (NLS), challenges himself and his international colleagues to apply principles entailed in viewing literacy as a social practice to diverse educational contexts. This edited volume includes sixteen case studies of innovative projects and programs by researchers and practitioners working across the boundaries of traditional educational institutions and the everyday lives of their students. Their work also tests and challenges NLS theory.
Considering this book for course adoption?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS [ click to expand ]
|
Brian Street Brian Street has a longstanding commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education. He has lectured internationally and written extensively on literacy practices, in theory and in application. His numerous publications include Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives (2001), Social Literacies (1995), and Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy (1993). Street is currently Professor of Language in Education at King's College, London, and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. |