East is east, west is west? : home literacy, culture, and schooling / Guofang Li. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Guofang, 1972-

Series:

Rethinking childhood ; v. 28.

Rethinking childhood ; vol. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Education--Canada.

Chinese.

Children of immigrants--Education--Canada.

Children of immigrants.

Education, Bilingual--Canada.

Education, Bilingual.

Multicultural education--Canada.

Multicultural education.

Literacy--Social aspects--Canada.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 225 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Focusing on four Chinese immigrant children's intersecting worlds of home literacy, culture, and schooling, Guofang Li brings the reader into the inner worlds of these children and their families through an ethnographic lens. Centering on the meanings that these children's home literacy practices and their beliefs about literacy have brought upon their school experiences, this book documents the complex, multifaceted nature of the different literacy practices of these children in their distinct family milieus. Li highlights the role of culture and family capital in shaping home literacy practices and schooling. The illustrations of the varied, but often frustrating home experiences counteract the schooled Eurocentric notion of literacy that may constrain and contradict immigrant children's learning outside of schools."--Jacket.

Contents:

The Interface between Literacy and Culture: A Journey from East to West

Understanding Literacy in a Cross-cultural Context

Literacy, Learning, and Cross-cultural Schooling

Literacy as a Cultural Practice

Literacy as "Situated" Practices

Family as a Cultural Setting

Literacy Learning as Social Construction

Literacy, Family, and Cross-cultural Living

Unfolding the Stories

Methodological Framework

Positionality of the Researcher

Research Sites: The Families and the City

How the Stories Are Told

Yang: The New Boy on the Block

Introduction to English Literacy at Home

The Boy Who Cries: Yang Li's School Experiences

When East Meets West: Yang's Parents on Schooling

Yue: Tuning to the New Rhythm

Yue's Chinese School at Home

Puzzled Parents: What Western Schooling is About?

From Chinese Monolingual to English Monolingual

Derin: "I Can't!"

"Lonely in a Crowd": Derin at Home

The China-Boy in School

A Mother's Endless Tears: Schooling for What?

Amy: "I Want to Learn A, B, C!"

Amy's World: Emergent Literacy

Amy's First Encounter with School

Home Literacy: What It Is and What It Means

The Nature of Home Literacy Practices

Home Environment and Literacy Development

Social Integration and Literacy Development

Media and Literacy

The Meaning of Schooling in a Cross-cultural Context

Home-School Connection: What Does it Mean?

Cultural Values and Schooling

Socio-economic Status and School Performance

Stereotypes, First Language, and ESL Children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-225) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph