Learning to Read the World and the Word - 9781648025358

Learning to Read the World and the WordSchool-University-Community Collaboration to Enrich Immigrant Literacy and Teacher Education\nAuthor(s): R. Martin Reardon, Jack Leonard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781648025358, 978-1648025358\nSynopsis\nThe perspective espoused by this volume is that collaboration among universities, schools, and communities is a crucial element in ensuring the provision of optimal learning environment for both im/migrant children and their parents. Chapter authors share their practice and theorizing regarding the many questions that arise when schools and universities collaborate with communities and build supportive structures to nurture literacy among im/migrant students. Enlightened teaching and culturally aware approaches from teachers engender support and cooperation from parents. Enlightened leadership is a constant thread through all the endeavors that are chronicl.