The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture (Language and Literacy Series)

Dyson, Anne Haas

ISBN 10: 0807742805 / ISBN 13: 9780807742808

Published by Teachers College Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture (Language and Literacy Series)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807742805
• ISBN 13: 9780807742808
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of “textual toys” from children’s lives―church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays―upon school learning and writing. Wonderfully rich portraits of five African American first-graders demonstrate how children’s imaginative use of wider cultural symbols enriches their school learning.

Featuring lively and engaging vignettes of children who are often left behind by our educational system, this book:

• Provides a detailed view of written language development from inside a particular childhood culture.
• Shows that children bring a rich folk culture to school and demonstrates how they “remix” their cultural references to accommodate school tasks such as writing.
• Turns the traditional educational view inside out by starting from inside a child’s culture and looking out toward the demands of school, rather than starting on the outside of the child and looking in.
• Provides concrete examples of how children’s cultural literacy practices translate into classroom practices and, in turn, into practices of academic success.

About the Author

Anne Haas Dyson is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School, Writing Superheroes, The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write, and with Celia Genishi, Children, Language, and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times.