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Constructions of literacy : studies of teaching and learning in and out of secondary schools

Author: Elizabeth B Moje; David G O'Brien
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The authors define literacy as speaking, listening, reading, writing, and performing written texts. They emphasize how the structure of the high school and the psychological development of adolescents will affect the construction of literacy.
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Cas, Études de
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth B Moje; David G O'Brien
ISBN: 0805829482 9780805829488 0805829490 9780805829495
OCLC Number: 43060692
Description: xxi, 357 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Situating secondary school literacy research / David W. Moore, John E. Readance --
Exploring the context of secondary literacy : literacy in people's everyday school lives / David G. O'Brien, Elizabeth B. Moje, Roger A. Stewart --
Reading, writing, and talking to get work done in biology / Deborah R. Dillon, David G. O'Brien, Mark Volkmann --
"I've run a 4,000 person organization ... and it's not nearly this intense ..." : a three-year case study of content literacy in high school mathematics / Elizabeth G. Sturtevant, Victoria Parsons Duling, Robert E. Hall --
Engaging at-risk students : literacy learning in a high school literacy lab / David G. O'Brien, Rebecca Springs, David Stith --
Texts and talk : the role of gender in learning physics / Barbara J. Guzzetti --
Looking back at Mr. Weller : a personal retrospective / Roger A. Stewart --
"She puts all these words in it" : language learning for two students in tenth-grade social studies / Kathleen A. Hinchman, Patricia Zalewski --
Constructing and negotiating literacy in the writer's workshop : literacy teaching and learning in seventh grade / Elizabeth B. Moje, Debra J. Willes, Kris Fassio --
Living as an everyday practice / Scott F. Oates --
The education of African American youth : literacy practices and identity representation in church and school / Michelle M. Kelly --
Reading gender and positionality into the nine case studies : a feminist poststructuralist perspective / Donna E. Alvermann --
Boundaries on the construction of literacy in secondary classrooms : envisioning reading and writing in a democratic and just society / David Bloome.
Responsibility: edited by Elizabeth B. Moje, David G. O'Brien.
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The authors define literacy as speaking, listening, reading, writing, and performing written texts. They emphasize how the structure of the high school and the psychological development of adolescents will affect the construction of literacy.

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