Charting an Asian Trajectory for Literacy Education: Connecting Past, Present and Future Literacies

Chong, Su Li

ISBN 10: 0367751798 / ISBN 13: 9780367751791

Published by Routledge 2022-09, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Charting an Asian Trajectory for Literacy Education: Connecting Past, Present and Future Literacies
• Publisher: Routledge 2022-09
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367751798
• ISBN 13: 9780367751791
• Binding: PF
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Weaving outwards from a centripetal force of biographical stances, this book presents the collective perspectives of literacy researchers from Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Taiwan. It represents the first all-Asian initiative to showcase the region’s post-colonial, multilingual and multicultural narratives of literacy education. This book provides a much-needed platform that initiates important conversations about literacy as a sociocultural practice in a region that is both challenged and shaped by sociocultural influence unique to Asia’s historical and geopolitical trajectory. Driven by the authors’ lived experiences of becoming literate as well as their empirical research work in later years, each chapter brings decades of biographical narratives and collective empirical research findings to bear. Within the book are negotiations about literacy across and within home and school contexts; transactions of literature, text and reader; and considerations of the literacy policy-practice nexus. These trajectories, while divergent in their issues, come together as shared lived experience located in local contexts considered through global perspectives. As Asia looks set to become the 21st century’s new economic and labour force, the need to understand the sociocultural milieu of this region cannot be understated. This book on literacy education in Asia contributes to the larger narrative.

About the Author

Su Li Chong is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Management and Humanities, Institute of Self Sustainable Building, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. She is also Head of UTP’s University Social Responsibility (Education Pillar). She obtained an MPhil and a PhD in Education from University of Cambridge, UK where she was the recipient of St. Edmund’s College Dean’s Award (2014). Her research interests are in literacy and language education, particularly in the intersections of multilingualism, multimodality and meaning-making.