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Literacy in Latin America.

Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice approaches, New Literacy Studies, sociolingui...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalman, Judy
Otros Autores: Street, Brian V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America: Local Perspectives and Beyond; PART I Latin American Literacies: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches; 2 The Local and the Global in Literacy Practices in "Traditional Communities": Letramento: Only a Neologism?; 3 Access to Written Culture as Part of the Social Reproduction Strategies of Rural Families in Córdoba (Argentina); 4 A Multimodal Approach to the Understanding of Students' Collaborative Writing of Digital Texts
  • PART II Literacy and Numeracy as Social Practice: Latin American Perspectives5 GPS Technology, Map Reading, and Everyday Location Practices in a Fishing Community; 6 When Illiterate isn't Illiterate. Reading Reality in a Multimodal Way; 7 Indexical Signs within Local and Global Contexts: Case Studies of Changes in Literacy Practices across Generations of Working Class Families in Brazil; 8 Survival of Original Knowledge; PART III Literacy and Numeracy in Education: Experiences in Latin America; 9 When Literacy Brings Too Many Risks: A Successful Lesson in Failure
  • 10 The Brazilian Landless Movement and a Mathematics Education Research Program11 Reading, Writing, and Experience: Literacy Practices of Young Rural Students; 12 Technology and Literacy: Towards a Situated Comprehension of a Mexican Teacher's Actions; 13 Preambles, Questions, and Commentaries: Teaching Genres and the Oral Mediation of Literacy; 14 Learning English in Mexico: Transnational Language Ideologies and Practices; Afterword: The Threat of a Good Example: How Ethnographic Case Studies Challenge Dominant Discourses; About the Editors and Contributors; Index