City Literacies: Learning to Read Across Generations and Cultures - Hardcover
City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in two contrasting areas of London at the end of the 20th century: Spitalfields and the City. This contrast outwardly symbolizes the huge difference between poverty and wealth existing in Britain at this time. The book presents a study of living, learning and reading as it has taken place in public settings, including the school classroom, clubs, places of worship, theatres, and in the home. Over fifty people recount their memories of learning to read in different contexts and circumstances.
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Eve Gregory is Professor of Language and Culture in Education at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Ann Williams is Lecturer in Linguistics at The University of Reading.
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'The book must be widely read and used as a basis for discussion. I hope it will be used as a model for further investigation of language in inner cities.' - Harold Rosen, Times Education Supplement
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0415191157
- ISBN 13 9780415191159
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages232
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. List price Amazon - $150.00, "City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in Spitalfields and The City at the end of the 20th century. It contrasts these two 'square miles' of London, which outwardly symbolize the huge difference between poverty and wealth existing in Britain at this time. The book presents a study of living, learning and reading as it has taken place in public settings, including the school classroom, clubs, places of worship, theatres, and in the home. Over fifty people recount their memories of learning to read in different contexts and circumstances. Eve Gregory and Ann Williams contextualize the participants' stories and go far to dispel the deep-seated myths surrounding the teaching and learning of reading and writing in urban, multicultural areas. The result is both poignant and highly significant to the study of literacy. " (Publisher). Seller Inventory # H2092C
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xx + 232 pages, b&w illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. Gentle handling wear, interior is clean with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show a bit of shelfwear, short creases to edges. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction: Poverty and Illiteracy - the Deficit Myth [Myth of Poverty and Learning Difficulty; Myth of Poverty and Parental Deficiency; Myth of Mismatch and Learning Difficulty; Myth of the 'Correct Way' to Teach Literacy; Success Through Difference: An Alternative Model; Spitalfields Study]; Part One: Living and Learning East of the Aldgate Pump -- 1 Places and Peoples [Learning to Live with Contrasts (Huguenots: From Riches to Rags; The Irish: Famine and Fenians; Jews: Anglicising the Aliens; A Life of 'Sweating' in Spitalfields; East and West: 'The Dark Continent Within Easy Reach of the General Post Office'; Housing the Poor: Philanthropic Capitalism; Fighting Back: Rebels and Revolutionaries; Bangladeshis: From Sylhet to Spitalfields)] 2 Schooling the City [Sir John Cass School; From Charity to Board School; Contrasts and Change: Canon Barnett School; Jews' Free School: From Foreigner to English Citizen; Mediators of Literacy in East End Communities (Jewish Religious Classes; Qur'anic and Bengali Classes; Libraries: Friends to the Poor; Toynbee Hall)]; Part Two: Childhood Memories of Literacy and Learning -- Introduction 3 Literacy for Survival [Families: 'Getting on' in a Land of Contrasts (English Londoners: One Foot in the City and One Outside; Wealth and Poverty; School and Work; Dependence and Independence; Jewish Children: From the Outside, Looking in; Poverty and Wealth; Jewishness and Englishness; Reading at Home: The Role of Parents; Parents as Role Models; Parents as Catalysts in Language Learning; Parents as Providers of Opportunity; Funds of Knowledge in the Community; Magic of Toynbee Hall; English Literacy Classes; Library: Escaping Everyday Life; Hebrew Classes: 'The Be-all and End-all' for Our Jewish Families; School as Mediator of Literacy, Literature and Life in the World of the Empire; Early Days at School: Learning to Read by Rote and Memorisation; Reading as an Introduction to Literature and Culture; Teachers as Guiding Lights; Entering the British Empire: Syncretising New and Old Worlds] 4 Literacy for Equality [Families; Home Learning; Pioneers: The Schoolchildren (Janet and John Across the World; Secondary School; Grammar School: 'An Indispensable Kind of Citizen'; Modern School: A 'Practical and Craftsmanlike Tradition'; Guiding Lights); Pioneers: The Teachers; Pioneers: The Mature Students]; 5 Literacy for Choice [Family as Provider of Love, Language and Literacy (Role of Love, Pride and Tradition; Families as Teachers of Language and Literacy); A Treasure Trove: Literacy in the Community (Qur'anic Classes; Bengali Classes; Why Didn't They Say 'The World Is Your Oyster'? Literacy, Language and Learning in the English State School; Teachers: 'The Good Ones Made It Hard'; Syncretising Literacies, Languages and Identities; Coming to Terms with Choice)]; Looking Back; Part Three: Looking Ahead: Young Literacies, Lives and Learning -- Introduction 6 Living Literacies in Homes and Communities [Reading at Home (Monolingual Mothers; Children; Literacy Brokers and Guiding Lights); Formal Learning in Informal Contexts (Bangladeshi-British Children); Booksharing at Home (Mothers; A New Paradigm of Early Literacy?)] 7 Learning the Literacy of School [Nadia and Her Friends: The Early Syncretism of Home and School Learning (Playing School at Age 7; Into Nadia's Classroom: Learning the Strategies of Reading; From School to Home and Home to School); Maruf and His Friends: The Later Syncretism of Home and School Learning (Early Years: Learning to Learn Differently at School; Shared World of Home and School: Playing School at 11)]; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Seller Inventory # 006942
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