Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development

Issues and Concepts
Herausgeber: Soler, Janet M; Reid, Gavin; Fletcher-Campbell, Felicity

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on current research, debates and concerns, this Reader adopts a cross disciplinary approach to understanding and working with those who experience difficulties with literacy. It provides a broad view of difficulties in literacy and related educational and curriculum learning issues across a range of ages, phases and settings. The Reader first considers questions of literacy, before going on to look at literacy development in relation to: " Issues and concepts in public reading debates " Literacy curriculum policy contexts " Community, family, society and individual identity " Social justice and equity issues and learning disabilities This Reader is relevant to all postgraduate students of Literacy, as well as educators, professionals and policy makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781848607729
• ISBN-10: 1848607725
• Artikelnr.: 27874410

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: WHAT IS LITERACY? WHAT ARE
DIFFICULTIES IN LITERACY
? Literacy: In search of a paradigm - Naz Rassool Globalisation, literacy and society: Redesigning pedagogy and assessment - David Johnson and Gunther Kress The historical construction of dylsexia: Implications for Higher Education - Janet Soler PART TWO: ISSUES AND CONCEPTS IN PUBLIC READING DEBATES Literacy as a complex activity: Deconstructing the simple view of reading - Morag Stuart, Rhona Stainthorp, Maggie Snowling The irrelevancy - and danger - of the
simple view
of reading to meaningful standards - Victoria Purcell-Gates Ehri
s model of phases of learning to read: A brief critique - John R Beech Siblings bridging literacies in multilingual contexts - Ann Williams and Eve Gregory Boys
underachievement: Issues, challenges and possible ways forward - Joe Burns and Paul Bracey Re-counting
Illiteracy
: Literacy skills in the sociology of social inequality - Geoff Payne PART THREE: LITERACY CURRICULUM POLICY CONTEXTS Research and the National Literacy Strategy - Roger Beard Literacy policy and policy literacy: A tale of phonics in early reading in England - Kathy Hall
To be or not to be?
: The politics of teaching phonics in England and New Zealand - Janet Soler and Roger Openshaw Powerful literacies: The policy context - Mary Hamilton, Catherine Macrae and Lyn Tett PART FOUR: COMMUNITY, FAMILY, SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY The self-concept and its relationship to educational achievement - Robert Burden The self-concept and dyslexia - David Pollak PART FIVE: SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUITY ISSUES AND LEARNING DISABILITIES Special education
s changing identity: Paradoxes and dilemmas in views of culture and space - Alfredo J Artiles The cultural work of learning disabilities - Ray McDermott, Shelley Goldman and Hervé Varenne