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Literacy : an advanced resource book / Brian V. Street and Adam Lefstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Street, Brian V.
- Series:
- Routledge applied linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy.
- Literacy programs.
- Reading.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Summary:
- Literacy is a comprehensive textbook which provides students and researchers with support for advanced study of the topic. It introduces readers to a broad range of approaches to understanding literacy in educational contexts and in society. Literacy: -- integrates psychological, educational and anthropological approaches to literacy and its consequences for individuals and society gathers together influential readings from key names in this inter-disciplinary field, including: Catherine Snow, David Olson, and Mike Cole presents teachers, students and researchers with many diverse opportunities to explore for themselves a broad range of perspectives and methods of study. Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Literacy is an essential textbook for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.
- Contents:
- Why study literacy?
- Organisation of the book
- Keywords
- Encounters with literacy
- Academic study of literacy : mapping the field
- Meanings of "literacy" in different traditions
- Literacy acquisition
- Consequences of literacy : the literacy thesis
- Literacy as social practice
- New literacies
- Educational terms
- Anthropological terms
- Psychological terms
- Beginning to read
- Whole language
- Social challenges and policy
- Literacy in schools
- Consequences of literacy
- The great divide
- Testing the literacy thesis
- Autonomous versus ideological models of literacy
- Demythologising literacy
- Literacy practices
- Literacy and identity
- Multilingual literacies
- Literacies at work
- The literacy thesis resisted
- Exploring literacy as social practice
- Investigating literacy practices : an ethnographic perspective
- Literacy log
- Literacy and education
- Phonics, whole language, and English orthography
- Children's literature : code, content, and practice
- Academic literacies
- Literacy at large
- Workplace literacies
- Everyday writing in modern society
- International policy and practice in the literacy field
- "Literacy problems" and the mass media.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415291811
- 041529181X
- 9780415291804
- 0415291801
- OCLC:
- 148726112
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