UNDERSTANDING DIFFICULTIES IN LITERACY DEVELOPMENT: ISSUES AND CONCEPTS

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ISBN 10: 1848607725 / ISBN 13: 9781848607729

Verlag: SAGE PUBLISHING, 2009

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: UNDERSTANDING DIFFICULTIES IN LITERACY DEVELOPMENT: ISSUES AND CONCEPTS
• Verlag: SAGE PUBLISHING
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1848607725
• ISBN-13: 9781848607729
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: Internationale Ausgabe
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Based on current research, debates and concerns, this Reader adopts a cross disciplinary approach to understanding and working with those who experience difficulties with literacy. It provides a broad view of difficulties in literacy and related educational and curriculum learning issues across a range of ages, phases and settings.

The Reader first considers questions of literacy, before going on to look at literacy development in relation to:

" Issues and concepts in public reading debates

" Literacy curriculum policy contexts

" Community, family, society and individual identity

" Social justice and equity issues and learning disabilities

This Reader is relevant to all postgraduate students of Literacy, as well as educators, professionals and policy makers.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Gavin Reid is an international consultant and psychologist with consultancies in Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia. He was Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in the Department of Education and Counseling Psychology and Special Education in 2007 and 2010.
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He is chair of the British Dyslexia Association Accreditation Board and an ambassador for the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre in the UK and is a Consultant/Psychologist for the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Kuwait and the Lighthouse Learning Centre in Cairo. He is also a director of the Red Rose School for children with specific learning difficulties in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, UK. 

He was formerly senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies (formally Department of Special Education), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, from 1991 to 2007. He has written 34 books on learning, motivation and dyslexia and lectured to thousands of professionals and parents in 75 countries. Some of his books have been published in Polish, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Latvian and Slovak. He is an experienced teacher with over ten years’ experience in the classroom and has held external examiner appointments at 20 universities worldwide for PhD and masters’ courses. He resides in Vancouver and Edinburgh.

His email is gavinreid66@gmail.com and his website is: www.drgavinreid.com