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What do we mean when we say that a text is relevant to a young person or to a group of young people? And how might a reimagining of relevance, shaped through the voices of young men of color, enhance literacy teaching and learning? Based on case studies of six young Black, Latino, and South Asian men and their reading experiences, this book reconceptualizes the term relevance as it applies to and is applied within literacy education (middle school through college). The author reveals how four dimensions of relevance--Identity, Spatiality, Temporality, and Ideology--can guide educators in supporting the reading and meaning-making experiences of students in ways that honor the complexities of ...
Most, if not all, books on allelopathy cover the ecological, agronomic, and descriptive physiological aspects. And although the amount of papers published on the chemical aspects and mode of action of these compounds continues to rise, there has been, until now, no book available that reflects the latest literature. Written by experts, Allelopathy:
Fruto de um seminário internacional, com a participação de especialistas do campo das linguagens do Brasil, da Itália e da Espanha, o livro conduz a reflexões de natureza política e valorização do campo das Artes, da Literatura e de outros conhecimentos.
El Cancionero Popular Infantil es conocido y utilizado por niños y mayores, pero cada vez con menor frecuencia y de manera más débil. Los niños han perdido los espacios que hasta hace años les pertenecían y que utilizaban para su ocio y diversión. De manera paralela a la pérdida de estos lugares de juego y encuentro, también han perdido el tiempo destinado a esas actividades, ocupado ahora en tareas extraescolares. Pero entre tantos factores negativos para la pervivencia del Cancionero Popular Infantil, aparecen ciertos datos que aportan un halo de esperanza: libros, ?principalmente de Literatura Infantil?, Internet y otros medios audiovisuales, junto a la familia y, especialmente, la escuela, están consiguiendo que el Cancionero Popular Infantil logre mantenerse ?con grandes esfuerzos? en el imaginario colectivo del niño pequeño.
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.