{"product_id":"children-in-immigrant-families-becoming-literate-9781032133034","title":"Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames. Drawing on reports from five years of an ongoing longitudinal research project involving students from immigrant families across their elementary school years, each chapter explores a unique set of questions about the students' experiences and offers a rich data set of observations, interviews, and student-created artifacts. Authors apply different sociocultural, sociomaterial, and sociopolitical frameworks to better understand the dimensions of the children's experiences. The multitude of approaches applied demonstrates how viewing the same data through distinct lenses is a powerful way to uncover the differences and comparative uses of these theories. Through such varied lenses, it becomes apparent how the complexities of lived experiences inf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This timely volume…offer[s] much-needed insights for educators to understand the languages, literacies, cultures, and other assets that children from non-dominant backgrounds bring to their schooling….This volume offers precisely this proleptic lens to help educators see the past, reimagine the future, and act on the present to rewrite the trajectories of long-lasting inequities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--From the Foreword by Guofang Li, University of British Columbia, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Guofang Li\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: A Theoretical Tapestry of Sociocultural and Sociomaterial Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: A Longitudinal Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Neoliberal Messages and Being a \"Good\" Reader: The Cases of Carlos, Felipe, and Elina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Capital, Field, and Emergent Bilingual Writers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Being and Becoming Multilingual across Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Syncretic Literacy and Language Practices: The Case of James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Sociomateriality and Becoming: \u003ci\u003eThings \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Doings\u003c\/i\u003e across Time \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Introducing the Children\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018858529111,"sku":"9781032133034","price":37.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032133034.jpg?v=1750778414","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-in-immigrant-families-becoming-literate-9781032133034","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}