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International Perspectives on Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning: Critical Conversations book cover

1st Edition

International Perspectives on Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning Critical Conversations

Edited By Cynthia Brock, Beryl Exley, Lester-Irabinna Rigney Copyright 2023
288 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 75 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the conceptual framework, opportunities for learning, as a transaction between literacy learners, mediating agents, and the literacy content to be learned within social, cultural, and historical contexts. With contributions from top scholars from around the world, the chapters in this book provide a window into the varied ways learners, their families, educators, and... Read more

Contents

Support Material

Foreword

Section 1 - Setting the Context

Introduction: Contextualizing Our Collaboration, Our Book, and Opportunities for Learning

  1. What Do Opportunities and Diversities Have To Do with Literacies Teaching and Learning?: A Provocation

    2. Section 2 - Opportunities-for-Learning: Focusing on Learners Learning

  2. Exploring Classroom Implications of Literacies and Diversities Through an Opportunities for Learning (OfL) Lens

  3. Teaching through lifeworlds of Aboriginal Children: Australian Opportunities through Culturally Responsive Pedagogies

  4. Positioning and Academic Diversity in a First-Grade Literacy Program: Implications for Opportunities for Learning

  5. Opportunities for Learning Disciplinary Literacies in Engineering Club (Grades 3-5)

  6. Transnational Digital Literacies and Transitory Opportunities: A Perspective from the Global South

  7. Opportunities for LGBTQ+ Students’ Learning in English Language Arts Classrooms

    8. Section 3 - Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning: Teachers and Teacher Education

  8. The Significance of Difference: Student Diversity and Literacy Learning

  9. The City as Curriculum: Opportunities for Learning about Literacies, Ethnography, and Pedagogy of Place

  10. White Teachers' Opportunities for Learning About Whiteness

  11. Newly Trained Ghanaian Teachers’ Opportunities for Learning Literacy Content

  12. Collaborative Inquiries in Diverse Literacy Classrooms to Understand Learning Opportunities

    13. Section 4 - Opportunities for Learning: Community and Family Literacies

  13. Unveiling the Hidden Capital of Family Prolepsis for School: Non-Dominant Students’ Opportunities for Positive Futures

  14. Co-Constructing Opportunities for Shared, Collective Literacies Learning in Communities in Fiji

  15. Co-Constructing Opportunities for Learning with Displaced Children and Families

  16. From Deficit Discourses to Learning About Pedagogy: Using Testimonio to Track Opportunities for Learning in a Research Journey

Conclusion: New Imagining of School

Biography

Cynthia Brock is Professor and Wyoming Excellence Endowed Chair in Literacy in the College of Education at the University of Wyoming, USA.

Beryl Exley is Professor and Deputy Head of Learning and Teaching in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia.

Lester-Irabinna Rigney is Professor and Co-Chair of the Pedagogies for Justice Group of the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, Education Futures Unit at the University of South Australia, Australia.

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