Author : Deborah Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2001-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521003063
This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.
Author : David Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136021507
Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in today’s world, this book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning. The authors explore the complex relationship between learning and adults’ lives, following a wide range of individual students in various formal learning situations, from college environments to a young homeless project, and a drug support and aftercare centre. The study is rooted in a social practices approach and examines how people’s lives shape their learning. Themes addressed range from: how literacy is learned through participation and how barriers such as violence and ill-health impact on people’s lives. Based on a major research project and detailed, reflexive and collaborative methodology, the book describes a coherent strategy of communication and impact which will have a direct effect on policy and practice
Author : Maya Payne Smart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0593332180
An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner. When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents’ work as children’s first teachers begins from day one too—and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions. Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all.
Author : Patrick Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317360885
The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacies—what people do with literacy in particular social situations—has focused attention toward understanding the connections between reading and writing practices and the broader social goals and cultural practices these literacy practices help to shape. This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains. Its contribution is to provide, through an empirical framework, a larger cumulative understanding of literacy across diverse contexts.
Author : Michael W. Smith
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2008-11-11
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ISBN : 9781439573846
Author : Deborah Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107090318
Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people's daily literate experience.
Author : J. North Conway
Publisher : Quill
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1995-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780688140762
Author : Frances Mary D'Andrea
Publisher : American Foundation for the Blind
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780891283461
This handbook provides teachers with practical tips and advice on improving literacy skills for students with low vision. The book provides easy-to-understand explanations of vital topics such as interpreting eye reports, performing functional vision assessments, working with low vision service providers, and more. The valuable resource section, tables, sample reports and sidebars offer essential information on assessing low vision students and helping them use their vision effectively.
Author : Frederick J. Morrison
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300130252
divAn alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this problem have all too often resulted in “silver bullet” solutions such as reducing class size or implementing voucher programs. But as the authors of this critically important book show, improving literacy also requires an understanding of complex and interrelated social issues that shape a child’s learning. More than twenty years of research demonstrate that literacy success is determined by a combination of sociocultural forces including parenting, preschool, classroom instruction, and other factors that have a direct impact on a child’s development. Here, Frederick J. Morrison, Heather J. Bachman, and Carol McDonald Connor present the most up-to-date research on the diverse factors that relate to a child’s literacy development from preschool through early elementary school. Urging greater emphasis on the immediate sources of influence on children, the authors warn against simple, single solutions that ignore other pivotal aspects of the problem. In a concluding chapter, the authors propose seven specific recommendations for improving literacy—recommendations that can make a real difference in American education./DIV
Author : Patricia A. Edwards
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807770663
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In this book, the authors look back to move forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy educators can use to transform their schools. The text addresses four major debates: the fight for access to literacy; supports and roadblocks to success; best practices, theories, and perspectives on teaching African American students; and the role of African American families in the literacy lives of their children. Throughout, the authors highlight the valuable lessons learned from the past and include real stories from their own diverse family histories and experiences as teachers, parents, and community members.
