SUMMARY:
Brian Street , a pioneering figure in the New Literacy Studies (NLS), challenges himself and his international colleagues to apply principles entailed in viewing literacy as a social practice to diverse educational contexts. This edited volume includes sixteen case studies of innovative projects and programs by researchers and practitioners working across the boundaries of traditional educational institutions and the everyday lives of their students. Their work also tests and challenges NLS theory.

The accounts include processes of literacy learning in school and out-of-school in the UK, US, Africa, Latin America, and Canada; in elementary, secondary, higher education, adult education; through field trips, school councils, service learning, Widening Participation; amongst LGBTQ youth; in the project Freire Literacy Academies in New York City and the Hispanic Academic Program in Northern California; via multi-grade schooling in the Peruvian Amazon and in a heritage language and literacy program in Hawai’i.

These authors explore what it means for students to learn and teachers to teach literacies across local and global contexts as people move between cultures and communities in the 21 st century.

CONTENTS
Foreword
By Kathy Schultz

1 Introduction: New Literacy Studies and Literacies across Educational Contexts
By Brian V. Street

Section I
Early Literacy Learning
2 “Pedagogy is not enough:” Early Literacy Practices in a South African School
By Pippa Stein and Tshidi Mamabolo

3 Communicative Practices and Participation in School Councils in Primary Schools in the United Kingdom
By Sue Cox and Anna Robinson-Pant

4 Multigrade Schooling and Literacy: Linking Literacy Learning in Home, Community, and Primary School in the Peruvian Amazon
By Patricia Ames

5 Breaching the Classroom Walls: Literacy Learning across Time and Space in an Elementary School in the United States
By Joanne Larson

Section II
Literacies in the Adolescent Years
6 “Sayin’ it in a Different Way :” Adolescent Literacies Through the Lens of Cultural Studies
By Bronwen Low

7 Bridging Life and Learning through Inquiry and Improvisation: Literacy Practices at a Model High School
By Rob Simon

8 Putting it Out There: Revealing Latino Visual Discourse in the Hispanic Academic Summer Program for Middle School Students
By Peter Cowan

9 Literacy and Media in Secondary Schools in the United Kingdom
By Joanna Oldham

10 “Where I’m from:” Transforming Education for Language Minorities in a Public High School in Hawai’i
By Kathryn A. Davis, Hye-sun Cho, and Sarah Bazzi

11 Project Freire Saturday Literacy Academies: Recreating Freire for High School Students in Brooklyn
By Maryann Cucchiara

Section III
Adult Literacies
12 Adults Learning Literacy: Adult Learning Theory and the Provision of Literacy Classes in the Context of Developing Societies
By Alan Rogers with Md. Aftab Uddin

13 “Not Just Infatuation:” Sexuality and Literacy in the Age of HIV
By Dorinda Welle, Michael Clatts, and Glen Barnard

14 What Does “Finding Out” Literacy Practices Mean? An Exploration of Some of the “Hard Issues” in a College English Class Tutoring Project with Appalachian Children
By Julie Eastlack Hopson

15 Nontraditional Students in Higher Education: English as an Additional Language and Literacies
By Constant Leung and Kimberly Safford

16 There is No Place Like Home: A Teacher Education Perspective on Literacies Across Educational Contexts
By Jennifer Rowsell and Dorothy Rajaratnam

17 Deconstructing Academic Practices through Self-reflexive Pedagogies
By Penny Jane Burke and Monika Hermerschmidt