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Print literacy development : uniting cognitive and social practice theories / Victoria Purcell-Gates, Erik Jacobson, Sophie Degener.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purcell-Gates, Victoria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Literacy.
- Cognitive learning--United States--Case studies.
- Cognitive learning.
- Adult education students--United States--Case studies.
- Adult education students.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a socio-cultural context of literacy practices.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- CHAPTER ONE To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed
- CHAPTER TWO The LPALS Study
- CHAPTER THREE How Does Print Literacy Develop?
- CHAPTER FOUR Literacy as Social Practice
- CHAPTER FIVE Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development
- CHAPTER SIX The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive
- CHAPTER SEVEN Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens
- CHAPTER EIGHT The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674042377
- 0674042379
- OCLC:
- 923108934
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