Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
Contributorsxi
List of Figuresxvii
List of Tablesxxi
INTRODUCTION
1. Literacy events and literacy practices: theory and practice in the New Literacy Studies17
I. CHILDREN’S WORLDS OF LITERACY: HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY31
2. Work or play? ‘Unofficial’ literacies in the lives of two East London communities37
3. Power relations and the social construction of ‘literacy’ and ‘illiteracy’: the experience of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham55
4. Learning to read and write at home: the experience of Chinese families in Britain71
5. Language, literacy and world view91
6. Language and literacy practices in Gujarati Muslim families103
7. Children writing in a multilingual nursery127
II. TEXTS, IDENTITIES AND ADULT WORLDS145
8. Enterprising women: Multilingual literacies in the construction of new identities149
9. Writing switching in British Creole171
10. Mediators and mediation in multilingual literacy events189
11. Texts, mediation and social relations in a bureaucratised world209
III. CREATING SPACES FOR MULTILINGUAL LITERACIES IN LOCAL COMMUNITY CONTEXTS229
12. Languages and literacies for autonomy233
13. Gender, literacy and community publishing in a multilingual context247
IV. RESEARCHING LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES IN THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXTS273
14. Taking account of history and culture in community-based research on multilingual literacy275
15. Photography in collaborative research on multilingual literacy practices: images and understandings of researcher and researched299
16. Constructing a critical, dialogic approach to research on multilingual literacy: participant diaries and diary interviews319
AFTERWORD
Multilingual literacies, literacy practices, and the continua of biliteracy353
Bibliography369
Index389
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