Table of Contents

Foreword
Chapter One: Listening, Storytelling, and Literacy
Chapter Two: Improving Family Child Care: Navigating a Rugged Landscape of Concerns, Expectations, and Needs
Chapter Three: “‘You’re doing the best with what you have.’ ‘No, we do with what we don’t have.’”
Chapter Four: Listening: A Channel for Critical Literacy
Chapter Five: Demands of Official Portraits
Chapter Six: Encountering New Demands—Composing Non-official Portrait
Chapter Seven: Acting Upon, With, and For Literacy
Chapter Eight: Literacy from a Native Vantage Point
Chapter Nine: The Laguna History and Culture Class
Chapter Ten: Reclaiming the Laguna Worldview
Chapter Eleven: Laguna Cultural Literacy
Chapter Twelve: A Gift at a Most Opportune Time

About the Author

Kyle Shanton is Associate Professor and Chair of Education at Albion College where he teaches courses in foundational contexts of education, processes for understanding teaching and learning, literacy education, pedagogy of the humanities and boundary crossing in schools. Dr. Shanton’s research interests keep him closely connected to classrooms, schools and communities, and include issues of language choice and use in teaching and learning, progressive forms of pedagogy, and education as a practice of freedom.