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East is east, west is west? : home literacy, culture, and schooling / Guofang Li.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Guofang, 1972-
- Series:
- Rethinking childhood ; v. 28.
- Rethinking childhood ; v. 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Education--Canada.
- Chinese.
- Children of immigrants--Education--Canada.
- Children of immigrants.
- Education, Bilingual--Canada.
- Education, Bilingual.
- Literacy--Social aspects.
- Children of immigrants--Education.
- Chinese--Education.
- Canada.
- Multicultural education--Canada.
- Multicultural education.
- Literacy--Social aspects--Canada.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2002]
- Contents:
- The Interface between Literacy and Culture: A Journey from East to West 1
- Understanding Literacy in a Cross-cultural Context 5
- 1 Literacy, Learning, and Cross-cultural Schooling 11
- Literacy as a Cultural Practice 11
- Literacy as "Situated" Practices 13
- Family as a Cultural Setting 16
- Literacy Learning as Social Construction 23
- Literacy, Family, and Cross-cultural Living 27
- 2 Unfolding the Stories 35
- Methodological Framework 35
- Positionality of the Researcher 36
- Research Sites: The Families and the City 38
- How the Stories Are Told 42
- 3 Yang: The New Boy on the Block 45
- Introduction to English Literacy at Home 45
- The Boy Who Cries: Yang Li's School Experiences 67
- When East Meets West: Yang's Parents on Schooling 68
- 4 Yue: Tuning to the New Rhythm 75
- Yue's Chinese School at Home 75
- Puzzled Parents: What Western Schooling is About? 93
- From Chinese Monolingual to English Monolingual 99
- 5 Derin: "I Can't!" 103
- "Lonely in a Crowd": Derin at Home 103
- The China-Boy in School 112
- A Mother's Endless Tears: Schooling for What? 113
- 6 Amy: "I Want to Learn A, B, C!" 119
- Amy's World: Emergent Literacy 119
- Amy's First Encounter with School 127
- 7 Home Literacy: What It Is and What It Means 129
- The Nature of Home Literacy Practices 129
- Home Environment and Literacy Development 132
- Social Integration and Literacy Development 141
- Media and Literacy 147
- 8 The Meaning of Schooling in a Cross-cultural Context 155
- Home-School Connection: What Does it Mean? 155
- Cultural Values and Schooling 156
- Socio-economic Status and School Performance 158
- Stereotypes, First Language, and ESL Children 162
- The Missing Link and Cross-cultural Learning 164
- 9 Back to the School Setting and Beyond: Learning from the Children 167
- Rethinking School Literacy 167
- A New Approach to Parental Involvement 175
- ESL Policy and Immigrant Children 186
- Epilogue: The Journey Continues 191
- Appendix A Research Methods 193
- The Pilot Study 193
- Data Collection 193
- Data Analysis 196
- Ethical Considerations 197
- Subjectivity, Gender Role, and Power Relations 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-217) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820461199
- OCLC:
- 49332891
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