English & Literacy/Language Arts

Path-breaking research on women and literacy in the past decade established conventions and advanced innovative methods that push the making of knowledge into new spheres of inquiry...

This volume brings together reading and literacy experts from education and psychology in an examination of issues impacting early reading success and failure. For students and researchers in literacy and educators alike...

Summarizing the findings of international literacy assessments, this book examines literate behavior worldwide, in terms of both the ability of populations from a wide variety of nations to read and the practice of literate behavior in those nations. Literacy, and in particular the practice of liter..

This short guide to creative writing for children is based on the author's own successful writing course. Andrew Melrose provides guidance on every aspect of the process of writing for children...

This collection of original research explores ways that educators can create participatory spaces that foster civic engagement, critical thinking, and authentic literacy practices for adolescent youth in urban contexts...

This book explores how youth appropriate the arts, media, and literacy as resources that enable them to express their identities and engage in social and cultural engagement, and implications for critical and media-based literacy pedagogies in schools...

This book explores how youth appropriate the arts, media, and literacy as resources that enable them to express their identities and engage in social and cultural engagement, and implications for critical and media-based literacy pedagogies in schools...