Literacy, Society, and Schooling: A Reader

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Suzanne de Castell, Allan Luke, Kieran Egan
Cambridge University Press, 31 oct. 1986 - 336 pages
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.
 

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On defining literacy
3
The functions and uses of literacy
15
The Properties Purposes and Promotion of Literacy
27
Literacy and the education of the emotions
37
Matters historical and social
59
The legacies of literacy continuities and contradictions in western society and culture
61
Models of literacy in North American schools social and historical conditions and consequences Suzanne de Castell and Allan Luke
87
A sociohistorical approach to remediation
110
Reading is recognition when reading is not reasoning
196
Critical factors in literacy development
209
Matters practical
231
Foundations for literacy prereading development and instruction
233
Individual development in literacy
243
Teaching students not to read
256
Teaching writing the process approach humanism and the context of crisis
270
Collaborative revision learning and selfassessment
313

The business of literacy the making of the educational textbook
132
Matters empirical
143
Learning to mean what you say toward a psychology of literacy
145
Metalinguistic awareness and the growth of literacy
159
On modeling comprehension
175
Notes on contributors
321
Author index
325
Subject index
330
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À propos de l'auteur (1986)

Kieran Egan, originally from Clonmel, Ireland, has published sixteen academic books. He holds two Ph.D.s in education, from Stanford & Cornell. He is a professor at Simon Fraser University & lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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