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Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, this book shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families.

Janks shows how competing orientations to critical literacy education - power, access, diversity, design - foreground one over the other. Her central argument is that these different orientations are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create new possibilities.

Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, this book shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing school learning that exist within culturally and linguistically diverse families.

Useful for pre-service and practicing teachers, this text addresses how teachers can alert students to the realities of language and power. It deals with language issues that affect students in classrooms: the political nature of language, the power of words, hate language and bullying, gender and language, dialects, and language policies.

Contributes to scholarship on the role of language in developing classroom scientific communities of practice, expands that work by highlighting the challenges faced by ethnic - and linguistic - 'minority' students and their teachers in joining those communities, and showcases teaching and research initiatives for helping to meet these challenges.

Examines assumptions about literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used historically both to empower and to oppress. This book focuses on African American middle and secondary students as a population that has experienced the consequences of inequality. It demonstrates general and specific applications to other populations.

This text is designed for teachers of children who do not speak English as a first language. It explores the findings from a four-year case study of a Canadian high school with a large number of immigrant students from Hong Kong and describes how their teachers negotiated the issues that arose.

Janks shows how competing orientations to critical literacy education - power, access, diversity, design - foreground one over the other. Her central argument is that these different orientations are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create new possibilities.

First-year college composition textbook features a series of recursive assignments that allow students to research & write about issues confronting their individual communities. Covers the basics of the course (the writing process).