Refugee and Immigrant Family Voices
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About the Book
Wisdom and activism come to us sometimes in the smallest and most unexpected ways through soft, previously silenced, yet passionate voices. Critical theory, critical literacy, and related approaches to learning about the world and many forms of knowledge can be a potentially effective way to address complexities of our changing world society. Critical pedagogists and other postmodern scholars speak often of the importance of educators taking on the risk and responsibility of being intellectual participants. By attending to both the sense of opposition and the sense of engaged participation intellectuals can explore the possibilities for action. This book reports on qualitative research following educators-including parents, community elders and teachers using critical literacy-in several countries and documents the ways the educators use various funds of knowledge (Moll et al., 2005) for self-advocacy. It modestly attempts to address the funds of knowledge of educators (families and community members) in a variety of contexts from a variety of cultures, continents, and situations of living. Thus, this book is for all of us striving to make connections with migrating people through our work-educators, researchers, community activists, classroom teachers, family advocates, and readers interested in the changing dynamics of societies.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9789087902964
EAN: 9789087902964
Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2009
Dewey: 371.1
Height: 230 mm
MediaMail: Y
Pagination: 140 pages, black & white illustrations
Returnable: N
Spine Width: 10 mm
Year Of Publication: 2009
ISBN-10: 9087902964
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Gardner Classification Code: I00
Language: English
No of Pages: 140
PrintOnDemand: Y
Series Title: English
Width: 154 mm