Pitkänen-Huhta / Holm Literacy Practices in Transition

Perspectives from the Nordic Countries
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84769-842-1
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 280 Seiten

Reihe: New Perspectives on Language and Education

Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how the global and local meet in discourses and practices and how people need to (re)negotiate their way in the complex and messy spaces in which they move. The volume challenges current trends in the global standardization of language and literacy education. Instead, it promotes the idea of literacy as a multiple, multilingual, multimodal and constantly contestable and negotiable phenomenon, which calls for the development of language and literacy education that is sensitive to the needs and experiences of the individual actors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne

Holm, Lars

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Lars Holm and Anne Pitkänen-Huhta: Literacy Practices in Transition: Setting the Scene

Section I: Literacy and Identities in Transition

Chapter 1: Anne Golden and Elizabeth Lanza: Narratives on Literacies: Adult Migrants’ Identity Construction in Interaction

Chapter 2: Åsa Wedin: Literacy in Negotiating, Constructing and Manifesting Identities: The Case of Immigrant Unaccompanied Refugee Boys in Sweden Chapter 3: Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta: Privileging Identity Positions and Multimodal Communication in Textual Practices. Intersectionality and the (Re)negotiation of Boundaries

Section II: Local Practices in Transition

Chapter 4: Line Møller Daugaard and Helle Pia Laursen: Multilingual Classrooms as Sites of Negotiations of Language and Literacy

Chapter 5: Mia Halonen: Skills as Performances: Literacy Practices of Finnish Sixth-graders

Chapter 6: Monica Axelsson and Kristina Danielsson: Multimodality in the Science Classroom

Chapter 7: Laura McCambridge and Anne Pitkänen-Huhta: Discourses of Literacy on an International Master’s Programme: Examining Students’ Academic Writing Norms

Section III: Policies and Practices in Transition

Chapter 8: Lars Holm and Sari Pöyhönen: Localising Supranational Concepts of Literacy in Adult Second Language Teaching

Chapter 9: Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad and Anne Marit Vesteraas Danbolt: Teacher Reflections under Changing Conditions for Literacy Learning in Multicultural Schools in Oslo

Chapter 10: Rita Hvistendahl: Bilingual teachers: Making a Difference?

Afterword: David Barton: On the Move: Transitions in Literacy Research

Über Autor(innen)

Holm, Lars
Lars Holm holds a PhD in literacy and globalization and is currently associate professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University. His research focuses on literacy and language practices in complex multilingual and postcolonial settings and on concepts and practices in literacy and language testing in education.

Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne
Anne Pitkänen-Huhta is Full Professor (with a PhD degree, University of Jyväskylä, Finland) at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is currently Dean for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä. Her research focuses on (foreign) language learning and teaching practices, multilingual language education, and multilingual literacy practices. She employs ethnographic, discourse analytic and visual methods. Her co-edited publications include Literacy practices in transition: Perspectives from the Nordic countries (2012), Reconceptualizing connections between language, literacy and learning (2019) and a special issue “Visual Methods in Applied Language Studies” (Applied Linguistics Review, 2018).

Anne Pitkänen-Huhta received her academic training at the universities of Jyväskylä and Lancaster. She is currently a professor of English, language learning and teaching at the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä. Her research focuses on multilingual literacy and discourse practices, especially of young people, and foreign language learning in formal and informal contexts. Her research employs ethnographic and discourse analytic methods.

Lars Holm holds a PhD in literacy and globalization and is currently associate professor at the Department of Education, Aarhus University. His research focuses on literacy and language practices in complex multilingual and postcolonial settings and on concepts and practices in literacy and language testing in education.