Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies? (eBook, ePUB)

Why Expertise Matters
Redaktion: Goodman, Kenneth S.; Goodman, Yetta M.; Calfee, Robert C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Whose knowledge is considered in framing government literacy policies which mandate accountability, in the form of standardized test scores? This book examines the degree to which expertise is being ignored and pseudo-science becoming the basis for literacy policies and laws.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135096748
• Artikelnr.: 39681731

Autorenporträt

Kenneth S. Goodman is Professor Emeritus, Language, Reading and Culture, University of Arizona, USA. Robert C. Calfee is Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Education, USA. Yetta M. Goodman is Regents Professor Emerita, Language, Reading and Culture, University of Arizona, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Foreword: Joel Spring
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Knowledge, Evidence, and Faith: How the Federal
Government Used Science to Take Over Public Schools, Robert Calfee
Part 1: The Political Realties
Chapter 2: Whose Knowledge Counts? The Pedagogy of the Absurd, Kenneth S.
Goodman
Chapter 3: Re-reading Poverty; Reorienting Educational Policy, Patrick
Shannon
Chapter 4: Neoliberal and Neoconservative Literacy Education Policies in
Contemporary France, Jacques Fijalkow
Chapter 5: Flying Blind: Government Policy on the Teaching of Reading in
England and Research on Effective Literacy Education, Henrietta Dombey
Chapter 6: Whose Knowledge Counts, For Whom, In What Circumstances?: The
Ethical Constraints on Who Decides, Sue Ellis
Chapter 7: About the Dubious Role of Phonological Awareness in the
Discussion of Literacy Policies, Renate Valtin
Part 2: Aspects of Literacy: The Knowledge Base
Chapter 8: The Role of Story and Literature in a World of Tests and
Standards, Kathy G. Short
Chapter 9: The Staircase Curriculum: Whole-School Collaboration to Improve
Literacy Achievement, Kathryn H. Au and Taffy E. Raphael
Chapter 10: Diversity in Children's Literature: What Does It Matter in
Today's Educational Climate? Rudine Sims Bishop
Chapter 11: Examining Three Assumptions about Text Complexity: Standard 10
of the Common Core State Standards, Elfrieda H. Hiebert and Katie Van Sluys
Chapter 12: The Role of Literature and Literary Reasoning in English
Language Arts and English Classrooms, Judith A. Langer
Chapter 13: Writing Teachers: The Roles Exploration, Evaluation, and Time
Play in Their Lives, Jane Hansen
Chapter 14: What Do Children Need to Succeed in Early Literacy-And Beyond?
William H. Teale, Jessica L. Hoffman, and Kathleen A. Paciga
Chapter 15: The Impact of Changing Conceptions of Language on Curriculum
and Instruction of Literacy and the Language Arts, David Bloome and Melissa
Wilson,
Comments: Nu!.... So!... Where do We Go from Here? Yetta M. Goodman
List of Contributors