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The brothers and sisters learn to write : popular literacies in childhood and school cultures / Anne Haas Dyson.
Van Pelt Library LB1139.L3 D97 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyson, Anne Haas.
- Series:
- Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
- Language and literacy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Language.
- Children.
- Educational sociology--United States.
- Educational sociology.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Semiotics.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of "textual toys" from children's lives -- church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays -- upon school learning and writing. Wonderfully rich portraits of five African American first-graders demonstrate how children's imaginative use of wider cultural symbols enriches their school learning.
- Contents:
- 1 School Literacy: The View from Inside a Child Culture 4
- Slipping into a Child Culture 7
- Conceptual Tools for Tracing the Threads of Child Literacy 11
- Methodological Tools for Constructing the Project Data Set 17
- A Writing Development Remix: The Plan of the Book 25
- 2 Mapping the Cultural Landscape of a Contemporary Childhood 28
- "Childtimes" 31
- The Social Usefulness of Textual Toys 43
- Venturing Out from a Childhood Landscape: Toward School Literacy Practices 50
- 3 The Brothers and Sisters in the Classroom Family: Entering School Literacy Practices 52
- Organizing the Classroom Family: Introduction to Official Space 55
- Child Journeys into Official Space 66
- Textual Borders in Permeable Space: The Consequences of Star Wars and Space Jam 72
- Toward Situating Childhoods in Composing Spaces 76
- 4 Sports Matters: Marcel and the Textual Mediation of Coach Bombay's and Ms. Rita's Worlds 78
- The Textual Resources of Sports Media 82
- Marcel and the Written Word 84
- On Coach Bombay's Kids and Writing 106
- 5 Animated Adventures: Noah's Textual Ark 109
- The Textual Resources of Animated Media 112
- Noah and the Written Word 114
- Young Children's Writing as Testing the (Social) Waters 134
- 6 Singing Stars: Denise's Musical Voices 137
- The Cultural Resources of Music Media 140
- Denise and the Written Word 142
- "All God's Children Got [School] Shoes" 166
- 7 A Writing Development Remix 169
- How the Present Builds on the Past: It's a Rap 171
- Situating Clay's "Kaleidoscopic Reshuffle": A Coach Bombay Remix 181
- Teachers' Work and the Dialogic Rhythms of Writing Development 185
- 8 The View from the Outside: "You've Got to Grow with Your Children" 192
- Parents: Our Children "Are Exposed to So Much" 193
- Popular Culture Professionals: You Have to "Hook" the Audience 196
- The Teacher: "Opening Up" Children's Worlds 207
- The Researcher: Making Space for Children in Childhood Literacy 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807742813
- 0807742805
- OCLC:
- 50004552
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