Literacy And Learning Reflections On Writing Reading And Society

Author : Deborah Brandt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470401346
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society written by Deborah Brandt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Brandt, a recipient of the Grawemeyer Award, is one of the most influential figures in literacy and education. Brandt has dedicated her career to the status of reading and writing in the United States. Her literacy research is renowned and widely studied. Literacy and Learning is an important collection of Brandt’s work that includes a combination of previously published essays, previously unpublished talks, and new work.

Author : Robert P. Waxler
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857246283
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Literacy: Changing Lives Through Reading and Writing written by Robert P. Waxler and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is interdisciplinary in focus and centers on enlarging teachers understanding of how reading and writing can change lives and how the language arts can contribute significantly to and change educational processes in the twenty-first century. Implicit in its argument is that although the emphasis on science and math is crucial to education in the digital edge, it remains vitally important to keep reading and writing, language and story, at the heart of the educational process. This is particularly true in a democratic society because shaping stories through human language can enhance the quality of our lives, and teach us something important about what it means to be human and vulnerable. In this sense, stories allow for self-reflection and an increased opportunity to enhance and understand emotional intelligence and human community.

Author : Robert P. Waxler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Literacy written by Robert P. Waxler and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is interdisciplinary in focus and centers on enlarging teachers' understanding of how reading and writing can change lives and how the language arts can contribute significantly to and change educational processes in the twenty-first century. Implicit in its argument is that although the emphasis on science and math is crucial to education in the digital edge, it remains vitally important to keep reading and writing, language and story, at the heart of the educational process. This is particularly true in a democratic society because shaping stories through human language can enhance the quality of our lives, and teach us something important about what it means to be human and vulnerable. In this sense, stories allow for self-reflection and an increased opportunity to enhance and understand emotional intelligence and human community.

Author : Dianne Ramdeholl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317264215
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Literacy in a New Era written by Dianne Ramdeholl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult Literacy in a New Era chronicles the history and development of The Open Book, an adult literacy organisation inspired by the legendary educationalist Paulo Freire, and other political educators. Using participants' own words and experiences, Ramdeholl analyses and investigates adult literacy policy and aspects of the program's history from its beginning in 1984 to its end in 2001. Offering new insights into methodologies of reading, writing, and learning, this book will inspire not only adult literacy students and teachers, but anyone concerned with changing public policy from the bottom up.

Author : John Oxenham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351236482
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy written by John Oxenham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980. The skills of reading and writing have been proclaimed as universal human rights. This book explores why this should be so. In particular, it examines whether or not the possession of reading or writing skills has, or has not, influenced the values and organisation of society. Viewing literacy as a technology, the author maintains that like all technologies, it is created by man for limited purposes. Nevertheless, given the right conditions, it can be used by man to change not only other technologies, but also himself and (in the end) all of his society. But like other technologies, literacy too may be subject to obsolescence which poses the all-important question of whether the advent of universal literacy has coincided with the redundancy of the written word.

Author : Harvey Graff
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979411
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Labyrinths Of Literacy written by Harvey Graff and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

Author : Suzanne de Castell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521313407
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy, Society, and Schooling written by Suzanne de Castell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the current 'literacy crisis' alleged in professional journals and the popular press. Literacy is at once a contentious social and educational issue, a continuing concern of parents and teachers, and the focal point of a range of disciplinary inquiries. Literacy, Society, and Schooling draws together especially commissioned essays on the nature, history, and pedagogy of literacy by social historians, philosophers, literary scholars, linguists, educators, and psychologists. The editors have attempted to convey, in an accessible format, the range and diversity of the scholarly debate about literacy-theory, research, and practice. Students, teachers, and researchers will find Literacy, Society, and Schooling an invaluable resource.

Author : Frank Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807734728
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Without Nonsense written by Frank Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, e, p, i, t.

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317577213
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy and Education written by James Paul Gee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind and speaks to learning in and out of school in new and powerful ways. Gee concludes by showing how the very idea of "literacy" has broadened into new literacies with words, signs, and deeds in contexts enhanced, augmented, and transformed by new technologies.

Author : Margaret A. Gallego
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807739723
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Counts as Literacy? written by Margaret A. Gallego and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical exploration of the theories and purposes of literacy challenges current assumptions about the discourse of schooling. Authors Margaret Anne Gallego and Sandra Hollingsworth, along with eminent scholars, delve into the lives and literacies that have traditionally been excluded from public classrooms and focus on the disenfranchisement that results from such politics. They propose an alternative set of literacies, helping non-mainstream students to learn the dominant language of power while preserving their community and personal identities. Through socio-political analyses, the contributors argue persuasively for expanding what "counts" as literacy to include visual media and technological literacy, multiple sign systems for special education students, community-based literacy and personal literacies. This practical and fresh collection is an essential resource for educators, theorists, and researchers who wish to expand the existing definitions of literacy to include multiple perspectives.