Full Description
This book explores the conceptual framework, opportunities for learning, as a transaction between literacy learners, mediating agents, and the literacy content to be learned within social, cultural, and historical contexts. With contributions from top scholars from around the world, the chapters in this book provide a window into the varied ways learners, their families, educators, and researchers have co-constructed opportunities for learning in a range of PK-12 classrooms, community settings, and university classrooms across the globe. Building on decades of existing scholarship, contributors conceptualize literacy as social practice and discuss a variety of literacies—including engineering literacies, community literacies, and bilingual and multicultural literacies and more—through real-world and insightful examples. By situating literacy learning in the complex social, cultural, and historical contexts in which students, teachers, and families live and work, chapter authors provide nuanced, qualitative, and deeply profound views of literacy learning. Critical and informative, with a myriad of examples on co-constructed opportunities for learning, this volume is an essential text for graduate courses on literacy education, and for literacy researchers, teacher educators, and teachers.
Contents
Contents
Support Material
Foreword
Section 1 - Setting the Context
Introduction: Contextualizing Our Collaboration, Our Book, and Opportunities for Learning
What Do Opportunities and Diversities Have To Do with Literacies Teaching and Learning?: A Provocation
Section 2 - Opportunities-for-Learning: Focusing on Learners Learning
Exploring Classroom Implications of Literacies and Diversities Through an Opportunities for Learning (OfL) Lens
Teaching through lifeworlds of Aboriginal Children: Australian Opportunities through Culturally Responsive Pedagogies
Positioning and Academic Diversity in a First-Grade Literacy Program: Implications for Opportunities for Learning
Opportunities for Learning Disciplinary Literacies in Engineering Club (Grades 3-5)
Transnational Digital Literacies and Transitory Opportunities: A Perspective from the Global South
Opportunities for LGBTQ+ Students' Learning in English Language Arts Classrooms
Section 3 - Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning: Teachers and Teacher Education
The Significance of Difference: Student Diversity and Literacy Learning
The City as Curriculum: Opportunities for Learning about Literacies, Ethnography, and Pedagogy of Place
White Teachers' Opportunities for Learning About Whiteness
Newly Trained Ghanaian Teachers' Opportunities for Learning Literacy Content
Collaborative Inquiries in Diverse Literacy Classrooms to Understand Learning Opportunities
Section 4 - Opportunities for Learning: Community and Family Literacies
Unveiling the Hidden Capital of Family Prolepsis for School: Non-Dominant Students' Opportunities for Positive Futures
Co-Constructing Opportunities for Shared, Collective Literacies Learning in Communities in Fiji
Co-Constructing Opportunities for Learning with Displaced Children and Families
From Deficit Discourses to Learning About Pedagogy: Using Testimonio to Track Opportunities for Learning in a Research Journey
Conclusion: New Imagining of School
