This series is home to cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections covering Literacy Education. Providing coverage of a broad range of emergent concepts, theories, and issues from around the world, texts address topics including pedagogy, curriculum, policy, teacher education, and language learning. Titles offer dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
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By Crystal Chen Lee, Jose Picart, Jennifer C. Mann
July 12, 2024
This book explores the transformative power of critical literacy in fostering youth engagement through university-community partnerships. It is based on a four-year study by The Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI) at North Carolina State University. The book examines the potential, ...
By Earl Aguilera
May 27, 2024
This text responds to changing literacy practices in the digital age by developing an interdisciplinary framework for analysis of digital content created by students. Drawing on scholarship that expands traditional understandings of literacy to account for new ways in which students engage with ...
By Rebecca G. Harper
March 21, 2024
This book addresses the ways in which literacy skills, including both reading and writing instruction, are introduced, reinforced, reviewed, and refined in a sports or physical education setting. While there has been significant research that highlights the academic benefits of sports participation...
By Michael Arthur Soares
October 10, 2023
Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around “Orwellian Spaces,” signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education. The volume details the urgency of dystopian texts for secondary students, providing ...
By Margaret Sheehy, Donna M. Scanlon
September 25, 2023
This volume details the development and initial evaluation of a supplemental literacy course intended to support at-risk high school students in the US. Developed using design based research (DBR), the course combines argument writing and knowledge building literacy routines to support academic ...
By Charmaine Bonello
September 25, 2023
This book explores boys’ underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children’s rights and postcolonial theory. The author confronts issues in literacy attainment, early literacy learning and transitions to formal schooling with a case study from Malta. ...
Edited
By Shea N. Kerkhoff, Hiller A. Spires
May 05, 2023
This book offers critical perspectives on global literacies, connecting research, theory, and practice. An emerging concept in the literacy field, many scholars agree on the need for students to develop global literacies, yet few agree on a widely accepted definition. Based on a synthesis of the ...
By Youngjoo Yi
January 09, 2023
Focusing on adolescent multilingual writing, this text problematizes the traditional boundaries between academic writing in school contexts and self-initiated writing outside of the formal learning environment. By reconceptualizing the nature of adolescent multilingual writing, the author ...
By Shauna Wight
January 09, 2023
Focusing on the needs and experiences of underrepresented students in the US, this text explores how pre-college outreach programs can effectively support the development of students’ writing skills in preparation for the transition from high school to college. Synthesizing data from a longitudinal...
Edited
By Su Li Chong
September 26, 2022
Weaving outwards from a centripetal force of biographical stances, this book presents the collective perspectives of literacy researchers from Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Taiwan. It represents the first all-Asian initiative to showcase the region’s ...
By Danielle L. DeFauw
February 01, 2022
This text draws on interviews, assignments, field notes, and observations from a flipped writing methodology course conducted with preservice elementary teachers in the US. In doing so, the text powerfully illustrates the benefits of using flipped methodologies in K-6 instruction to engage students...
Edited
By Jill Jeffery, Judy M. Parr
May 28, 2021
This book contributes to the innovation of writing education and research globally by providing crucial insights into how the structures and aims of literacy curricula vary internationally. It examines how nine education systems across five continents represent ‘good writing’ in curricula that ...