Breaking new intellectual and theoretical ground, leading literacy scholars to re-examine how educational and sociocultural contexts frame and define literacy events and practices. Drawing from Brian V. Street's work, this volume offers insights into fractures, tensions, and developments in literacy for scholars, students, and researchers.

1. Introduction Part 1: Literacy as Social - Reflecting Back and Moving Forward 2. Fashioning Literacy as Social 3. Literacy as a Social Practice: New Realities and New Models 4. Ideologies Languaged into Being: Examining Conversations on Schooled and Religious Literacies Ideologies Part 2: Literacy Practices and Language Ideologies 5. Making of narrative: Understanding young children's story writing in social contexts 6. Ideological battles over Quechua literacy in Perú: From the authority of experts to the innovation of youth Part 3: Literacy Practices Framed by Recognition of Complex Heteroglossic Social Contexts 7. Literacy Teaching and Learning in School as Polyphonic: A Close Examination of a Lesson Focused on Fun Home, the Graphic Memoir and Musical 8. Academic literacies as laminated assemblage and embodied semiotic becoming Part 4: Literacy as Praxis in Complex Educational Contexts 9. Literacy research as ideological practice: knowledge, reflexivity and the researcher 10. Testing Practice in a Southern School 11. Reading Philosophy Critically: Agentive Classroom Enactment 12. Approaches to Academic Literacy Instruction: Classifications, Conflicts and New Directions Part 5: Literacy and Personhood 13. Literacy and the Time Being 14. Faith, Culture and Identity: The everyday literacy practices 15. Examining our Blind Spots: Personhood, Literacy, and Power Part 6: The Conversation Continues 16. Conclusion: Literacy as Social and Cultural in the Future Perfect Tense