Understanding difficulties in literacy development : issues and concepts
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Understanding difficulties in literacy development : issues and concepts
（The open university）
SAGE, 2009
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: WHAT IS LITERACY? WHAT ARE 'DIFFICULTIES IN LITERACY'?
Literacy: In search of a paradigm - Naz Rassool
Globalisation, literacy and society: Redesigning pedagogy and assessment - David Johnson and Gunther Kress
The historical construction of dylsexia: Implications for Higher Education - Janet Soler
PART TWO: ISSUES AND CONCEPTS IN PUBLIC READING DEBATES
Literacy as a complex activity: Deconstructing the simple view of reading - Morag Stuart, Rhona Stainthorp, Maggie Snowling
The irrelevancy - and danger - of the 'simple view' of reading to meaningful standards - Victoria Purcell-Gates
Ehri's model of phases of learning to read: A brief critique - John R Beech
Siblings bridging literacies in multilingual contexts - Ann Williams and Eve Gregory
Boys' underachievement: Issues, challenges and possible ways forward - Joe Burns and Paul Bracey
Re-counting 'Illiteracy': Literacy skills in the sociology of social inequality - Geoff Payne
PART THREE: LITERACY CURRICULUM POLICY CONTEXTS
Research and the National Literacy Strategy - Roger Beard
Literacy policy and policy literacy: A tale of phonics in early reading in England - Kathy Hall
'To be or not to be?': The politics of teaching phonics in England and New Zealand - Janet Soler and Roger Openshaw
Powerful literacies: The policy context - Mary Hamilton, Catherine Macrae and Lyn Tett
PART FOUR: COMMUNITY, FAMILY, SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY
The self-concept and its relationship to educational achievement - Robert Burden
The self-concept and dyslexia - David Pollak
PART FIVE: SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUITY ISSUES AND LEARNING DISABILITIES
Special education's changing identity: Paradoxes and dilemmas in views of culture and space - Alfredo J Artiles
The cultural work of learning disabilities - Ray McDermott, Shelley Goldman and Herve Varenne
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