PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Yolanda Gayol Ramírez is a Fellow at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, USA, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. Patricia Rosas Chávez is Professor and Director of Innovation and Undergraduate Studies at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the College of Education at the University of Georgia, USA, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
This book reveals literacy education as grounded in individual psychological development and simultaneously in the history, cultures, languages, economics, technologies, and politics of society-with the potential of transforming both individuals and societies. The expansive, visionary program Letras para Volar sets an inspiring model for educational reform everywhere. * Charles Bazerman, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA * In this collection, we are introduced to how a master's program in Literacy Education renews literacy knowledge and practices, by prioritizing the population descending from its original peoples, with a view to achieving the dream of a New Mexico , free from injustice. It is an inspiration for the Global South countries. * Guilherme V. Rios, previously Professor at the University of Brasilia, Brazil and researcher at the National Institute for Educational Studies and Research of the Brazilian Government * This soaring vision of literacy education is a sober reminder of the destructive effects of coloniality, inequality, and oppressive relations of power. Alongside reclaiming the languages and multi-semiotic literacies of original peoples, it also stresses access to dominant literacies and technologies such that communities can harness them for their own purposes. * Hilary Janks, Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa *
