Urban Literacies Critical Perspectives on by Valerie Kinloch PAPERBACK

Urban LiteraciesCritical Perspectives on Language, Learning and Community\nAuthor(s): Valerie Kinloch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807751824, 978-0807751824\nSynopsis\nUrban Literacies showcases cutting-edge perspectives on urban education and language and literacy by respected junior and senior scholars, researchers, and teacher educators. The authors explore?through various theoretical orientations and diverse methodologies?meanings of urban education in the lives of students and their families across three intersecting areas of research: 1) family and community literacies, 2) teaching and teacher education, and 3) popular culture, digital media, and forms of multimodality.\n\nThis important volume:\n\nExtends the focus on literacy to include multiple settings and forms, as well as multiple voices and perspectives.\nServes as a model of critical research and an extension of mentoring relationsh.