Working Papers

The Cultural Practices of Literacy Study provides final reports of each case study or cross-case analysis sponsored by, or affiliated with, CPLS. These Working Papers represent peer-reviewed first-stage reports of findings. Many of them have been presented at professional conferences and will be published as journal articles, book chapters, or books. You may read the Working Papers by clicking on the links below:

• Resistance and Appropriation: Literacy Practices as Agency Within Hegemonic Contexts. Perry, K. & Purcell-Gates, V. Working Paper #1 1VpgPerry-agency2
• Appropriation and Resistance in the (English) Literacy Practices of Puerto Rican Farmers. Mazak, C. Working Paper #3 3MazakPuertoRicoFarmers
• Language and Literacy Issues in Botswana. Molosiwa, A. Working Paper #4 4MolosiwaBotswana
• Breadth and Depth, Imports and Exports: Transactions between the In- and Out-of-School Literacy Practices of an At Risk Youth. Collins, Stephanie. Working Paper #5 5AfricanAmerPreteenCollins
• Multiple Border Crossings: Literacy Practices of Chinese-American Bilingual Families. Zhang, G. Working Paper #6 6Zhang-Chinese-American
• Literacy Practices in a Foreign Language: Two Cuban Immigrants. Rosolova, Working Paper #7 7CubanRefugeesRosolova
• Sharing Stories, Linking Lives: Literacy Practices Among Sudanese Refugees. Perry, K. Working Paper #8 8SudanesePerry
• Literacy and Choice: Urban Elementary Students' Perceptions of Links Between Home, School and Community Literacy Practices. Kersten, J. Working Paper #9 9UrbanElStudentsKersten
• "You Have to be Bad or Dumb to Get in Here": Reconsidering the In-School and Out-of-School Literacy Practices of At-Risk Adolescents. Gallagher, D. Working Paper #10 10UrbanHSGallagher
• School and Home: Contexts for Conflict and Agency. O'Neil, C. Working Paper #11 11ONeil
• Digital Literac(ies), Digital Discourses, and Communities of Practice: Literacy Practices in Virtual Environments. Eyman, D. Working Paper #12 12EymanVirtualEnviron
• Cultural Practices of Literacy: A Case of Costa Rica --Final Report for the Spencer Foundation, Purcell-Gates, V. Working Paper #13 13SpencerFinalReport
• Family & Community: Tools Sudanese Refugees Use to Navigate Diverse Literacy Landscapes. Perry, K. Working Paper #14 14PerryFamilyCommunity
• Lost Boys, Cousins & Aunties: Using Sudanese Refugee Relationships to Complicate Definitions of "Family". Perry, K. Working Paper #15 15PerryFamilyLiteracy
• "Helping Our People": The Role of Literacies in Mediating Community among Sudanese Refugees. Perry, K. Working Paper #16 16PerryLiteracyCommunity
• Marginality Within Literacy Classrooms: Young Sudanese Refugee Children. Perry, K. Working Paper #17 17PerryMarginality
• From Storytelling to Writing: Transforming Literacy Practices Among Sudanese Refugees. Perry, K. Working Paper #18 18PerryStorytelling
• Leading with the Heart. Purcell-Gates, V. Working Paper #19 19LeadingWithHeart
• Practicas Culturales de Lectoescritura: Un Caso de Costa Rica. Para una videoconferencia; San Jose; Costa Rica. Purcell-Gates, V. Working Paper #20 20Spanish
• Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction: A Case Study of a Fe y Alegria School in Bolivia. Gates, T. & Purcell-Gates, V. Working Paper #21 21LiteracyBolivia
• Literacy practices for a Korean immigrant family in Canada. Kim J. Working Paper #22 22LiteracyKorean
• Let me show you how to do the homework: Child literacy brokering in and out of school. Perry, K. Working Paper #23 23PerryChildBrokering
• Constructions of Deficit: Families and Children on the Margins. Purcell-Gates, V. Working Paper #24 24ConstructionofDifferenceAERA2008
• Literacy Practice in a Canadian Urban Neighborhood: Two First Nation Mothers. Moayeri, M. Working Paper #25 25LiteracyCanadianNeighborhood
• Negotiating el Dificil: Uses of English Text in a Rural Puerto Rican Community. Mazak, C. Working Paper #26 26LitPractArtMazak
• More of the people want to know English: Sudanese refugee adults' participation in ESL programs. Perry, K. Working Paper #27 27KristenAdultESL
• I learned how to spell English on Channel 18: Television, language, and literacies in Sudanese refugee families. Perry, K. and Moses, A. Working Paper #28 28PerryMosesTVliteracies
• Constructions of Deficit: Families and Children on the Margins. Purcell-Gates V. Working Paper #29 29ConstructionDifferenceAERA2008
• Analyzing Literacy Practice: Grounded Theory to Model. Purcell-Gates, V., Perry, K. and Briseno, A. Working Paper #30 30CPLSPaper
• Implementing an Intergenerational Literacy Program with Authentic Literacy Activity. Purcell-Gates, V., Anderson, J., Gagne, M., Jang K., Lenters K., and McTavish M. Working Paper #31 31NRCPaperILP
• To Contextualize Agency: Children and Youth's Appropriation and Resistance of Literacy Practices Purcell-Gates, V., Perry, K. and Mazak, C. Paper presented at the Ethnography with Children and Youth in Educational Contexts on November 4, 2009; Buenos Aires, Argentina. Working Paper #32 32PurcellGatesPerrysymposium
• Increasing Literacy Levels of Canadian Students: A Policy Brief. Purcell-Gates, V. & Tierney, R. #33 33LiteracyPolicyBrief
• Responding to Context: Children and Youth's Appropriation and Resistance of Literacy Practices. V. Purcell-Gates, K.H. Perry, & C. Mazak #34 Argentina symposium paper
• Navigating a New Community: Literacy Brokering as a Tool for Community Participation Among Sudanese Refugees. K.H. Perry #35 LCSI_Navigating a New Community
• Mama, Sign This Note: Young Refugee Children's Brokering of Literacy Practices. K.H. Perry. #36 Mama, sign this note