Constructions of Literacy Book

Contents: A. Luke, Foreword. E.B. Moje, D.G. O'Brien, Preface. Part I:Framing Secondary and Adolescent Literacy Research. D.W. Moore, J.E. Readance, Situating Secondary School Literacy Research. D.G. O'Brien, E.B. Moje, R.A. Stewart, Exploring the Context of Secondary Literacy: Literacy in People's Everyday School Lives. Part II:Cases of Secondary and Adolescent Literacy. Section I:Cases That Seek to Interpret. D.R. Dillon, D.G. O'Brien, M. Volkmann, Reading, Writing, and Talking to Get Work Done in Biology. E.G. Sturtevant, V.P. Duling, R.E. Hall, "I've Run a 4,000 Person Organization...And It's Not Nearly This Intense...": A Three-Year Case Study of Content Literacy in High School Mathematics. Section II:Cases That Seek to Reform. D.G. O'Brien, R. Springs, D. Stith, Engaging At Risk Students: Literacy Learning in a High School Literacy Lab. B.J. Guzzeti, Texts and Talk: The Role of Gender in Learning Physics. Section III:Cases That Seek to Interrupt. R.A. Stewart, Looking Back at Mr. Weller: A Personal Retrospective. K.A. Hinchman, P. Zalewski, "She Puts All These Words in It": Language Learning for Two Students in Tenth-Grade Social Studies. E.B. Moje, D.J. Willes, K. Fassio, Constructing and Negotiating Literacy in the Writer's Workshop: Literacy Teaching and Learning in Seventh Grade. S.F. Oates, Living as an Everyday Practice. M.M. Kelly, The Education of African-American Youth: Literacy Practices and Identity Representation in Church and School. Part III:Commentaries. D.E. Alvermann, Reading Gender and Positionality Into the Nine Case Studies: A Feminist Poststructuralist Perspective. D. Bloome, Boundaries on the Construction of Literacy in Secondary Classrooms: Envisioning Reading and Writing in a Democratic and Just Society.