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    Making Sense of Words and Worlds

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  • Many Pathways to Literacy

    Young Children Learning with Siblings, Grandparents, Peers and Communities

    This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating studies conducted in a variety of cross-cultural settings where children learn language and literacy with siblings, grandparents, peers and community members. Focusing on the knowledge and skills of children often invisible to educators, these illuminating studies highlight how children skilfully draw from their varied cultural and ... Read more

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    Learning to Read Across Generations and Cultures

    Series series Literacies
    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 ... Read more

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  • Montesinos' Legacy

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    Montesinos’ Legacy brings scholars together in honor of the 500th anniversary of Dominican Antonio de Montesinos’ famous sermon in defense of the rights of the indigenous Amerindians. The collection addresses the historical context for this sermon, but also the continued relevance of Montesinos today. Montesinos’ Legacy examines the origins of human rights concepts in the West, the rights of ... Read more

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  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

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  • Communication

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    The integration of psychiatry into the mainstream of American society following World War II involved rethinking and revision of psychiatric theories. While in the past, theories of personality had been concerned with the single individual, this pioneering volume argues that such theories are of little use. Instead, the individual must be seen in the context of social situations in which rapid ... Read more

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  • One Child, Many Worlds

    Early Learning in Multicultural Communities

    Edited by Eve Gregory ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education and Multiculturalism
    Originally published in 1997. By drawing on the experiences of children aged 3 to 8 attending schools in Britain, Germany, Iceland, Australia and the USA, the authors of these eleven case studies provide insights into what it means for young children to enter a new language and culture in school. They look at the scope of out-of-school language and learning practices (the role of care givers, ... Read more

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  • Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities

    Religion in Young Lives

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences. The volume examines the connections between language and literacy practices and social identities associated with religion in a variety of sites of learning and ... Read more

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