UID:
almahu_9949701825102882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9789460916960
Series Statement:
Practice of Research Method ; 2
Content:
Winner! of the 2013 David H Russell award for Outstanding Research in English , the premier research award presented by the National Council of Teachers of English. ( About the 2013 award ) Winner! of the 2014 Steve Witte Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Writing and Literacies SIG In this book Peter Smagorinsky reconsiders his many publications employing Vygotsky's theory of culturally-mediated human development and applies them, through a unified and coherent series of chapters, to literacy research. This exploration takes previously-published work and incorporates it into a new and sustained argument regarding the application of Vygotsky's ideas to current questions regarding the nature of literacy and how to investigate it as a cultural phenomenon that contributes to human growth in social context. To conduct this inquiry, Smagorinsky first provides an overview that contextualizes Vygotsky both in his own time and in efforts to extrapolate from his Soviet origins to the 21st Century world. This consideration includes attention to the current context for literacy studies. He then reviews current conceptions of literacy in the realms of reading, writing, and additional tool use, grounding each in a Vygotskian perspective. The book's final chapters take a critical look at both research method and the writing of research reports, taking into account both research and research reports as social constructions based in disciplinary practices. On the whole, this volume makes an important contribution to Vygotskian studies and literacy research through the author's careful alignment between theory and practice.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- The Challenges of Claiming a Vygotskian Perspective -- Key Terms and Constructs in Adopting a Vygotskian Perspective -- The Social Construction of Data in the Zone of Proximal Development -- The Culture of School and How it Shapes Literacy Learning -- The Background for Current Literacy Studies -- Reading as Culturally Mediated, Mediating, and Meaningful Action -- Writing as Tool and Sign -- Nonverbal Tool and Sign Systems in a Cultural Theory of Literacy -- Thinking and Speech and Verbal Data -- The Method Section in Social Science Research Reports -- Author's Afterword -- References -- Glossary -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Vygotsky and Literacy Research: A Methodological Framework, Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2011
Language:
English
