IRA's Literacy Studies Series

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1. Popular Culture in the Classroom

   Teaching and Researching Critical Media Literacy

   By Donna E. Alvermann, Jennifer S. Moon, Margaret C. Hagwood, Margaret C. Hagood

   Edited by Jennifer S. Moon, Jennifer S. Moon

   Series: IRA's Literacy Studies Series

   This book is written for teachers, researchers, and theorists who have grown up in a world radically different from that of the students they teach and study. It considers the possibilities involved in teaching critical media literacy using popular culture, and explore what such teaching might look...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
2. Reading, Writing, and Talking Gender in Literacy Learning

   By Barbara J. Guzzetti, Josephine Peyto Young, Margaret M. Gritsavage, Laurie M. Fyfe, Marie Hardenbrook

   Series: IRA's Literacy Studies Series

   Until now, there has been no systematic analysis or review of the research on gender and literacy. With all the media attention and research surveys surrounding gender bias and the inequities that continue to flourish in education, a synthesis of the research studies was needed to raise awareness...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
3. Best Practice?

   Insights on Literacy Instruction From An Elementary Classroom

   By Margaret T. Stewart, Ira

   Series: IRA's Literacy Studies Series

   Teachers, parents, policymakers, and others interested in researching what's best for teaching children literacy skills will find literally thousands of resources purporting to be best practices. Who are you to believe? How can you make sense of what has been learned over the past decades about...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
4. Students' Identities and Literacy Learning

   By Sarah J. McCarthey, Ira

   Series: IRA's Literacy Studies Series

   Educators will find in this book an opportunity to examine the multiple, dynamic identities of the students they instruct and to consider the ways in which all teachers and students are shaped by their social and cultural settings. The volume is the first to examine theories of identity and...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge