This article emphasizes the importance of understanding local contexts to provide appropriate education for teachers about literacy instruction. The author reviews general problems that follow from extrapolating from unrepresentative research samples and the errors and deficit conceptions that follow from assuming that all cognition takes place…

Background/Context: Drawing from critical theory and new literacies studies, the article examines the design and production of museum literacies--broadly conceived to comprise reading spaces and objects, including language texts--and how these practices can be read in terms of political, social, historical, and economic relations. Because museums…