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This textbook provides a framework for teaching children's language
and literacy and introduces research-based tactics for teachers to
use in designing their literacy programs for children. Exploring
how sense-making occurs in contemporary literacy practice, Murphy
comprehensively covers major topics in literacy, including
contemporary multimodal literacy practices, classroom discourse,
literacy assessment, language and culture, and teacher knowledge.
Organized around themes-talk, reading and composing
representation-this book comprehensively invites educators to make
sense of their own teaching practices while demonstrating the
complexities of how children make sense of and represent meaning in
today's world. Grounded in research, this text features a wealth of
real-world, multimodal examples, effective strategies and teaching
tactics to apply to any classroom context. Ideal for literacy
courses, preservice teachers, teacher educators and literacy
scholars, this book illustrates how children become literate in
contemporary society and how teachers can create the conditions for
children to broaden and deepen their sense-making and expressive
efforts.
This textbook provides a framework for teaching children's language
and literacy and introduces research-based tactics for teachers to
use in designing their literacy programs for children. Exploring
how sense-making occurs in contemporary literacy practice, Murphy
comprehensively covers major topics in literacy, including
contemporary multimodal literacy practices, classroom discourse,
literacy assessment, language and culture, and teacher knowledge.
Organized around themes-talk, reading and composing
representation-this book comprehensively invites educators to make
sense of their own teaching practices while demonstrating the
complexities of how children make sense of and represent meaning in
today's world. Grounded in research, this text features a wealth of
real-world, multimodal examples, effective strategies and teaching
tactics to apply to any classroom context. Ideal for literacy
courses, preservice teachers, teacher educators and literacy
scholars, this book illustrates how children become literate in
contemporary society and how teachers can create the conditions for
children to broaden and deepen their sense-making and expressive
efforts.
"Telling Pieces" is an exploration of how pre-adolescent
middle-school children develop a knowledge and understanding of the
conventions of art (art as literacy) and how they use this
knowledge to create representations of their lives in a small
midwestern U.S. town.
Beginning with an overview of social semiotics and emergent
literacy theorizing, the authors set the stage for their study of
sixth graders involved in art. A galleria of children's artworks is
presented, allowing readers/viewers to consider these texts
independent of the authors' interpretations of them. Then, set
against the galleria is the story of the community and school
contexts in which the artworks are produced--contexts in which
racism, homophobia, and the repression of creativity are often the
norm. The interpretation the authors bring to bear on the artworks
reveals stories that the artworks may or may not tell on their own.
But the tales of artistic literacy achievement are counterbalanced
by reflection about the content of the artworks produced, because
the artworks reveal the impossibility for students to imagine
beyond the situational bounds of racism, homophobia, and
religiosity. The authors conclude by raising questions about the
kinds of conditions that make literacy in art possible. In doing
so, they explore selected alternative models and, in addition, ask
readers to consider the implications of the ideological issues
underlying teaching children how to represent their ideas. They
also advocate for a participatory pedagogy of possibility founded
on ethical relational principles in the creation and interpretation
of visual text.
Of particular interest to school professionals, researchers, and
graduate students in literacy or art education, this pioneering
book:
* brings together the fields of art education and literacy
education through its focus on how middle school students come to
work with and understand the semiotic systems,
* introduces sociolinguistic, sociological, and postmodernist
perspectives to thinking about children's work with art--adding a
new dimension to the psychological and developmental descriptions
that have tended to dominate thinking in the field,
* includes a galleria of 40 examples of children's artwork,
providing a unique opportunity for readers/viewers to interpret and
consider the artwork of the sixth graders independent of the
authors' interpretations,
* presents descriptions of art teaching in process,
* gives considerable attention to the interpretation of the
children's artworks and the influences that contribute to the
content they represent, and
* considers varying models of art education along with the
implications of introducing new representational
possibilities.
Telling Pieces is an exploration of how pre-adolescent
middle-school children develop a knowledge and understanding of the
conventions of art (art as literacy) and how they use this
knowledge to create representations of their lives in a small
midwestern U.S. town. Beginning with an overview of social
semiotics and emergent literacy theorizing, the authors set the
stage for their study of sixth graders involved in art. A galleria
of children's artworks is presented, allowing readers/viewers to
consider these texts independent of the authors' interpretations of
them. Then, set against the galleria is the story of the community
and school contexts in which the artworks are produced--contexts in
which racism, homophobia, and the repression of creativity are
often the norm. The interpretation the authors bring to bear on the
artworks reveals stories that the artworks may or may not tell on
their own. But the tales of artistic literacy achievement are
counterbalanced by reflection about the content of the artworks
produced, because the artworks reveal the impossibility for
students to imagine beyond the situational bounds of racism,
homophobia, and religiosity. The authors conclude by raising
questions about the kinds of conditions that make literacy in art
possible. In doing so, they explore selected alternative models
and, in addition, ask readers to consider the implications of the
ideological issues underlying teaching children how to represent
their ideas. They also advocate for a participatory pedagogy of
possibility founded on ethical relational principles in the
creation and interpretation of visual text. Of particular interest
to school professionals, researchers, and graduate students in
literacy or art education, this pioneering book: brings together
the fields of art education and literacy education through its
focus on how middle school students come to work with and
understand the semiotic systems, introduces sociolin
The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the
history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular
Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth
century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival
sources, official reports, and soldiers' memoirs and letters, this
book explores the motivations of those who were responsible for the
setting up and/or operation of the libraries, and examines what
they reveal about attitudes to military readers in particular and,
more broadly, to working-class readers - and leisure - at this
period. Murphy's study also considers the contents of the
libraries, identifying what kinds of works were provided for
soldiers and where and how they read them. In so doing, The British
Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 affords another way of
thinking about some of the key debates that mark book history
today, and illuminates areas of interest to the general reader as
well as to literary critics and military and cultural historians.
Widely scattered primary data from late antiquity confirm that
Roman-Christian families managed the rituals for death, burial, and
commemoration of the dead at the domestic level. Household worship
was regulated by Roman law, which explains in large part the lack
of any serious interest by the emergent church in funerary matters
until the mid-eighth century. During the interim therefore,
Christian women as the primary caregivers and ritual specialists of
the 'familia' assisted the dying, prepared the corpse for burial,
lamented the dead-in song, poetry, music, drama, and dance-hosted
funerary banquets, and remembered deceased family at the tomb.
Furthermore, women were patrons and administrators of cemeteries,
catacombs, martyr-shrines, and voluntary associations that buried
deceased members. It was not until ca.750 that the Frankish bishops
requested the nuns at the abbey in Chelles to compile the rituals
for Christian dying, death, and burial. The result was a
sacramentary of funerary liturgy called the Vatican Gelasian, the
forerunner of the sacrament 'extrema unctio'. This fascinating
history begs the question: Just how much did women contribute to an
early Christian identity?
The Journey From Oz: Seven Steps for Finding Your Way Back from
Places You Never Intended to Be, is a simple message of hope and
encouragement for anyone confronting challenges in life. Whether
swept up in whirlwinds of events, tossed about by life's storms, or
simply looking and realizing we are no longer where we want to be,
there are times in all our lives when we struggle to find our way.
Written with warmth and understanding, it offers simple supportive
advice to guide readers toward help and healing one step at a time.
The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6,
2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a 'rapid learning
health system' to the problem of cancer. This document summarizes
the workshop.
"I heard drawers and closet doors open and close as the policemen
continued their search in the bedrooms. My files were stacked in
the office. Those papers could connect my name and my face. My
picture albums were piled on the floor. If the officers opened
them, they'd see that I was the mother they were looking for. I
thought of everything they might find to bring my charade crashing
down around me." With the intensity of a mystery novel and the
heart of a true life drama, this heartbreaking memoir details
Murphy's years spent on the run with her young son. Disappearing
Act is a gripping story that reveals the saga of an ordinary
woman's struggle against the influence of her ex-husband's powerful
mother, famed author Maya Angelou. With extraordinary honesty,
Murphy recounts her marriage to Angelou's charismatic son, Guy
Johnson. Guy becomes violent, but not before the author gives birth
to their son Colin. To protect Colin, Sharon pursues a divorce. But
money, power, and influence put Colin in Guy's custody, despite his
violent behavior. Realizing that neither she nor her son would ever
live in peace and safety, Murphy makes the controversial decision
to kidnap her own son. Disappearing Act chronicles the harrowing
years Murphy and Colin spent on the run, as Guy and Angelou attempt
to track them down. Eventually Sharon is caught and Colin is
returned to his abusive father. Her subsequent incarceration and
release are recounted in painful detail. The author has found an
astonishing emotional truth about these events that both scarred
and defined her family. As the years pass, Murphy comes to
recognize and identify the hopes, fantasies, weaknesses, and family
patterns that led to the decisions she made. The issues that she
brought to her marriage, and to her relationship with her son begin
to crystallize and provide a kind of platform from which to move on
with her life. Entangled in a situation she did not understand,
Murphy reflects in Disappearing Act on the choices she made that
turned out to have consequences beyond her imagination. An
intensely personal story, this memoir ultimately describes a
universal journey of love, acceptance, and redemption. Praise for
Disappearing Act A Mother's Journey to the Underground "Sharon
Murphy has written a gripping, all-too-real memoir about her
custody battle and her flight "underground." Murphy is both bold
and humble as she confronts an abusive husband who is also an
abusive father and his formidable mother, the writer Maya Angelou.
Her scenes with both Angelou and with the writer's son ring true.
They are chilling, informative, dramatic. Brilliantly, Murphy
managed to protect her child for five years. When she is found,
Angelou herself came to collect her grandson, and returned him to
his father. "This is a writer's book. It is also a mother's book.
Murphy had strong sisters who helped her and a network of
supportive women, including feminists and lesbian feminists. Murphy
was also turned in by a woman. As the author of, Mothers on Trial.
The Battle for Children and Custody (1986, 2011) and Woman's
Inhumanity to Woman, (2002, 2009) I can assure you that Murphy
exaggerates nothing." Brava, Sharon Phyllis Chesler Ph.D is an
Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City
University of New York. She is a best- selling author, a legendary
feminist leader, a psychotherapist and an expert courtroom witness.
"Disappearing Act is a story of a woman's fierce bravery and
tenacity, and her refusal to be destroyed in the face of
experiences that might so easily have crushed her. I love the pluck
and humor and above all the big heart of this woman, and her
willingness to reveal not only her moments of rare courage but just
as much so her failings, as she fights not only for her son but for
her own survival against extraordinary obstacles." Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard is the author of fourteen books, including Labor Day
now a major motion picture.
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