Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power
This landmark volume articulates and develops the argument that new directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power that are central to understanding literacy research and literacy learning as social and cultural practices. With an overarching focus on the research process as it relates to sociocultural research, the book is organized around two themes: conceptual frameworks and knowledge sources.
*Part I, “Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks,” offers new theoretical lenses for reconsidering key concepts traditionally associated with sociocultural theory, such as activity, history, community, and the ways they are conceptualized and under-conceptualized within sociocultural theory.
*Part II, “Rethinking Knowledge and Representation,” considers the tensions and possibilities related to how research knowledge is produced, represented, and disseminated or shared—challenging the locus of authority in research relationships, asking who is authorized to be a legitimate knowledge source, for what purposes, and for which audiences or stakeholders.

Employing the lens of “critical sociocultural research,” this book focuses on the central role of language and identity in learning and literacy practices. It is intended for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in literacy education, social and cultural psychology, social foundations of education, educational anthropology, curriculum theory, and qualitative research in education.
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Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power
This landmark volume articulates and develops the argument that new directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power that are central to understanding literacy research and literacy learning as social and cultural practices. With an overarching focus on the research process as it relates to sociocultural research, the book is organized around two themes: conceptual frameworks and knowledge sources.
*Part I, “Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks,” offers new theoretical lenses for reconsidering key concepts traditionally associated with sociocultural theory, such as activity, history, community, and the ways they are conceptualized and under-conceptualized within sociocultural theory.
*Part II, “Rethinking Knowledge and Representation,” considers the tensions and possibilities related to how research knowledge is produced, represented, and disseminated or shared—challenging the locus of authority in research relationships, asking who is authorized to be a legitimate knowledge source, for what purposes, and for which audiences or stakeholders.

Employing the lens of “critical sociocultural research,” this book focuses on the central role of language and identity in learning and literacy practices. It is intended for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in literacy education, social and cultural psychology, social foundations of education, educational anthropology, curriculum theory, and qualitative research in education.
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This landmark volume articulates and develops the argument that new directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power that are central to understanding literacy research and literacy learning as social and cultural practices. With an overarching focus on the research process as it relates to sociocultural research, the book is organized around two themes: conceptual frameworks and knowledge sources.
*Part I, “Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks,” offers new theoretical lenses for reconsidering key concepts traditionally associated with sociocultural theory, such as activity, history, community, and the ways they are conceptualized and under-conceptualized within sociocultural theory.
*Part II, “Rethinking Knowledge and Representation,” considers the tensions and possibilities related to how research knowledge is produced, represented, and disseminated or shared—challenging the locus of authority in research relationships, asking who is authorized to be a legitimate knowledge source, for what purposes, and for which audiences or stakeholders.

Employing the lens of “critical sociocultural research,” this book focuses on the central role of language and identity in learning and literacy practices. It is intended for scholars, researchers, and graduate students in literacy education, social and cultural psychology, social foundations of education, educational anthropology, curriculum theory, and qualitative research in education.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780805856965
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/28/2007
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 226
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cynthia Lewis (Edited by) , Patricia E. Enciso (Edited by) , Elizabeth Birr Moje (Edited by)

Table of Contents

Contents: B. Street, Foreword. Preface and Acknowledgements. C. Lewis, P. Enciso, E. Moje, Introduction: Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy. Part I: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks. E.B. Moje, C. Lewis, Examining Opportunities to Learn Literacy: The Role of Critical Sociocultural Literacy Research. P. Enciso, Narrations of History and Transformation in Sociocultural Theories. R. Rogers, C. Fuller, 'As If You Heard It From Your Momma': Reconstructing Histories of Participation With Literacy Education in an Adult Education Class. K.D. Gutiérrez, Commentary. Part II: Rethinking Knowledge and Representation. M.F. Orellana, Moving Words and Moving Worlds: The Challenges of Being “In the Middle”. J. Guerra, Out of the Valley: Transcultural Repositioning as Rhetorical Practice in Research. B. Fecho, S. Meacham, Research Sites as Transactional Spaces. L. Moll, E. Rubenstein-Ávila, Commentary.
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