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Literacy practices and perceptions of agency : composing identities / Bronwyn T. Williams.
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Williams, Bronwyn T.
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English
Published/Created
New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
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xvii, 200 pages ; 24 cm
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LC149 .W454 2018
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Subject(s)
Literacy
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Psychological aspects
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Composition (Language arts)
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Psychological aspects
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Composition (Language arts)
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Study and teaching
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Summary note
In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency-whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context-are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews and observations with students in several countries, he examines the intersections of the social and the personal in relation to how and, crucially, why people engage successfully or struggle painfully in literacy practices and what factors and forces they regard as enabling or constraining their actions. Recognizing such moments and patterns can help teachers and researchers rethink their approaches to teaching to facilitate students' sense of agency as writers and readers. Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : perceiving agency in literacy practices
A feeling for literacy : emotions and dispositions
We are our stories : literacy, memory and narrative
Writing for the world : motivation, control, and meaning
Respect and response : literacy, relationships and community
Strange new worlds : rhetorical knowledge
A sense of where you are : literacy, place and mobility
The stuff that literacy practices are made of : technology
Metamorphosis hurts : literacy, transformation and resistance
Agency in, and beyond, the literacy classroom.
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ISBN
9781138667105 ((hbk))
1138667102
9781138667112 ((pbk))
1138667110
LCCN
2017009384
OCLC
975371861
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