Challenging Ways Of Knowing

In English, Mathematics And Science
Herausgeber: Baker, Dave; Fox, Carol; Clay, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work provides an analysis of how knowledge is constructed and defined by teachers and lecturers in schools and universities/colleges. It considers how everyday uses of reading, writing, numeracy and science are cast aside in favour of academic language and academic discourse, arguing that such discourses are alien to learners' daily experiences and are, therefore, difficult to acquire and adopt.; Chapters examine literacies of English, mathematics and science as practised in and outside schools and colleges. The book is interdisciplinary and multicultural, adopting perspectives from the UK, USA, South Africa, India, Brazil and Kenya. It should be of interest to a wide market of educationalists, including those involved in educational policy making, teacher education, cultural/multicultural studies, development studies, anthropology, and adult and continuing education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780750705257
• ISBN-10: 0750705256
• Artikelnr.: 21083640

Autorenporträt

Dave Baker, John Clay, Carol Fox

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Changing the subject boundaries: good science or good art? or both?,
Shirley Brice Heath; evolving shared discourse with teachers to promote
literacies for learning in South Africa, Alan and Viv Kenyon; mathematics,
and its learning, as narrative - a literacy for the 21st century, Leone
Burton. Part 2 Literacy practices inside schools, outside schools and in
higher education: scientific literacy - a functional construct, Edgar
Jenkins; family literacy programmes and home literacy practices, David
Barton; enlarging the ways of taking for literary texts, Henrietta Dombey;
frames of knowledge, Terezinha Nunes; children's formal and informal school
numeracy practices, Dave Baker; how can you discuss alone? - academic
literacy in a South African context, Lyn Hewlett; academic literacies,
Brian V. Street. Part 3 The role of texts in literacies for learning: an
agenda for research on text materials in primary science for second
language learners in developing countries, Alan Peacock; focusing on the
frames - using comic books to challenge dominant literacies in South
Africa, Peter Esterhuysen; book learning - literacy and information,
Margaret Meek. Part 4 Questioning dominant canons and practices: dominant
and subversive literacy practices - the case for literature, Carol Fox;
scientific literacy - whose science? whose literacy?, John Clay;
calculating people - origins of numeracy in India and the West, George
Gherverrhese Joseph.