Literacy and Learning: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary Education Issues) - Hardcover

Blake, Brett Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576072738 ISBN 13: 9781576072738

Verlag: ABC-CLIO, 2002

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A state-of-the-art compendium of resource materials and current practice that answers two basic questions: "What is literacy?" and "How do individuals become literate?"

Not long ago, literacy simply meant knowing how to read and write. Today, the study of literacy is a complex field encompassing many different areas, from computer literacy to geographic literacy, and including several degrees of competence such as functional, pragmatic, and cultured. In addition there are six kinds of readers: the submissive, the active, the semiotic, the subjective, the psychoanalytic, and the interpretive community reader, and at least two distinct ways of reading: aesthetic reading and rational reading.

In this comprehensive, accessible volume, two literacy experts not only help readers understand the latest theories and the heated controversies in this exciting field, they also show readers how this vast new knowledge is being applied in successful literacy programs.

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Brett Elizabeth Blake, Ph.D. is a professor of literacy and TESOL at St. John's University where she is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Vincentian center for Social Justice and Poverty. Having attended SUNY Stony Brook, Northwestern University and the University of IL at Chicago, Brett has worked with and written extensively on the need, globally, for equity in literacy and language acquisition especially among the most vulnerable.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ABC-CLIO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1576072738
• ISBN 13: 9781576072738
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland