Reading Students' Lives: Literacy Learning across Time / Edition 1

by Catherine Compton-Lilly

Overview

Reading Students' Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students' lives across time. The final book in a series of four that track a group of low-income African American students and their parents across a decade, it follows the same children into high school, bringing to the forefront issues and insights that are invisible in shorter-term projects. This is a free-standing volume that breaks new ground both theoretically and methodologically and has important implications for children, schools, and educational research. Its significant contributions include the unique longitudinal nature of the study, the lens it casts on family literacy practices during high school years, the close and situated look at the experiences of children from communities that have been historically underserved by schools, and the factors that alltoooften cause many of these children to move further and further away from school, eventually dropping out or failing to graduate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138190238
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/19/2016
Series:	Expanding Literacies in Education
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Catherine Compton-Lilly is Professor of Literacy Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword: Nick Hitchon

Chapter 1: Introducing Time

Time in Educational Research

Time in Educational Practice

Considering Trajectories

Considering Space

Chapter 2: Marvin’s Story Through Three Temporal Lenses

Lemke’s Timescales: Making Meaning Across Time

Bakhtin’s Chronotope: Institutional Expectations and Time

Bourdieu’s Habitus: Embodied Dispositions across Time

Conclusions

Chapter 3: David, Angela, & Bradford: Discourses over Time

The Language that People Use to Situate Themselves within Time

The Pace of Schooling and Temporal Language

Repeated Stories over Time

Conclusions

Chapter 4: Alicia and her Family across Time

Making Meaning across Time

Alicia and her Family

Revisiting Alicia

Conclusions

Chapter 5: Peter Becomes a Writer: The Development of Writing Habitus

Habitus and Field

Researching Habitus

Introducing Peter

Developing Writing Habitus

Conclusions

Chapter 6: Literate Trajectory as Chronotope: The Case of Jermaine

A Theoretical Framework for Trajectory: Bakhtin’s Chronotope

Introducing Jermaine

The Affordances of Chronotope for Making Sense of Jermaine’s Literate Trajectory

Conclusions

Chapter 7: Christy and I: Trajectories across Time

Layering Christy

Conclusions

Chapter 8: Temporal Conclusions

Afterword: Barbara Comber

Appendix A: A Longitudinal Methodology

Appendix B: Case Study Families