Author

Publication

2002-09-01 - Peter Lang Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

56,250 words, Guess

Page Count

225 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002016214
  • Goodreads2216306

Classifications

  • LCCLC3079 .L52 2002
  • LCCLC3079.L52 2002

Description

"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.

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