Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling

"This book is a rich resource in the discourse on language, literacy, and cultural diversity. The volume includes many of the noted scholars in the filed of language and literacy development as well as several in the field of multicultural studies. This text will be of interest to anyone engaged in the study of how language, literacy, and culture impact the learning and success of children in American schools."
-PsycCRITIQUES

"As a rich book of many conditions, facts and figures, realities, stories, and professional researching, 'Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling' is especially useful for those who are interested in what ethnographical research can do in our schools when our aim is to study the state of language, literacy, and power in schooling."
-The Reading Matrix

"...the volume is a valuable contribution to research on the roles of language and literacy in negotiating power within the dialectic of local and global forces."
-Studies in Second Language Acquisition

"Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling is a rare collection. Featuring ethnographic research in a critical tradition by scholars with long histories of working in schools, it is in the 'literacy as social practices' tradition but also acknowledges psycholinguistic aspects, thus showing literacy to be a thoroughly but not solely socio-cultural and ideological phenomenon. The contributors provide nuanced discussions of power, of the relations between race and literacy, and of how interactions in classrooms construct students as types of literates both in and out of school. Altogether, this collection confirms the sterility of currently mandated views of literacy and literacy pedagogy. More important in these darkening times, it offers hope as it honors people's ingenuity and agency in urban schools in the U.S., on the Navajo reservation, in Hopi schools, in the Chiapas highlands, and elsewhere."
-Carole Edelsky, Arizona State University

"These conceptually solid and interesting chapters contain a wealth of material relevant to ongoing debates about literacy and diversity. A great strength is the amount of new research presented here. This volume will be of interest to literacy researchers, educational anthropologists, qualitative researchers, and all concerned with equity and diversity."
-Kathryn Au ,University of Hawai'i