Transcultural Literacies

Mon. Jan. 4, 2021

Transcultural Literacies: Re-Visioning Relationships in Teaching and Learning
Edited by Karen Magro and Michelle Honeyford
Canadian Scholars' Press

With an interdisciplinary approach, Transcultural Literacies explores how teachers can design learning spaces to accommodate diverse students, in addition to how they can build literacy programs to complement and further develop the varied strengths, skills, and experiences of those students. With the Canadian society being more diverse than ever before, the application of transcultural literacies in Canadian classrooms is needed for the successful growth of students and teachers alike. In this edited volume, world-renowned educators offer unique perspectives on the impact of race, culture, and identity in the classroom. This text identifies how educators can build literacy programs around the strengths, linguistic diversity, and experiences of their students and includes pedagogical features such as chapter previews and visual organizers that introduce students to the ideas and concepts presented in each chapter, further recommend readings and websites, and guiding discussion questions.

Contextualizing places and spaces that are very different from the geographic and socio-cultural terrain of Canada and preparing educators to design learning spaces for students who have such varied experiences, educators will learn to better understand the trajectories of immigration: how immigrant students often enter the classroom after living in multiple places, acquiring several languages, and forming memories of places that are different from Canadian socio-cultural and geographic landscapes. Examining the roles of both teachers and students in transcultural language learning, this text will benefit students in teacher education programs and in graduate-level education studies that focus on language and literacy, diversity, and global citizenship.