Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-238) and index.

part PART I Parallel lines: home and school literacy -- chapter 1 Patterns of community literacy -- chapter 2 Pathway(s) to literacy -- chapter 3 Change and literacy practices: Teenagers and technology -- chapter 4 Mediation in community and school literacy -- chapter 5 Con?ict and control: literacy as management -- chapter 6 Identity, place and literacy -- part PART II Making sense of literacy research -- chapter 7 No single factor: Literacy and disadvantage -- chapter 8 No single answer: what schools can and can t do -- chapter 9 Researching in multilingual/multicultural contexts -- chapter 10 A harbourful of yachts: Making sense of literacy research -- chapter 11 Researching reading and writing in homes and schools.