Gunther Kress

Before Writing

Rethinking the Paths to Literacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gunther Kress provides fundamental challenges to common assumptions about language and literacy, thought and action. He places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 144mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780415138055
• ISBN-10: 0415138051
• Artikelnr.: 21059395

Autorenporträt

Gunther Kress

Inhaltsangabe

List of colour plates
List of figures
Preface
1 Literacy
identity and futures
2 'My Gawd
I made it like Australia':making meaning in many media
3 Making sense of the world:'The seagulls are reading the newspaper'
4 Drawing letters and writing dinosaurs:children's early engagement with print
5 'You made it like a crocodile':a theory of children's meaning-making
7 Teaching literacy
learning literacy
8 Futures
Sources and contexts
Bibliography
Index