1st Edition
Learning from Urban Immigrant Youth About Academic Literacies
By Jie Park
Copyright 2018
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book reports on a two-year long, qualitative literacy case study of the academic literacies of first and second-generation immigrant youth in an afterschool tutoring program in South Bronx, New York. Through transcripts of tutoring sessions, interview data, and youths’ written work, each chapter highlights how youth interpreted and navigated various school assignments, and what resources and... Read more
Chapter 1. Framing Immigrant Youth and Academic Literacies
Chapter 2. Problem Solving in Academic Literacies
Chapter 3: Tracing the Development of Academic Literacies
Chapter 4: Exploring the Role of Knowledge in Academic Literacies
Chapter 5: Deconstructing the Academic Literacy Gap
Chapter 6. A Resource Approach to Academic Literacies: Leveraging Urban Immigrant Youths’ Epistemic Privilege
Chapter 7. Teaching and Researching Academic Literacies
Biography
Jie Y. Park is an assistant professor of Education at Clark University, USA.
