Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development: Exploring Politics, Culture, Ethnicity and Ethics

Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development: Exploring Politics, Culture, Ethnicity and Ethics
ISBN-10
1136486194
ISBN-13
9781136486197
Category
Education
Pages
346
Language
English
Published
2014-06-03
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Janice Wearmouth, Janet Soler, Gavin Reid

Description

This book provides a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives on difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team of contributors provide ethical and policy discussions, as well as contextualising individual and collective strategies to addressing difficulties in literacy development. The chapters break new ground by encompassing a wide range of perspectives related to critical literacy, socio-cultural, cognitive, and psychological viewpoints, to help inform practice, policy and research into literacy difficulties. Issues addressed include: *the different ways literacy can be conceptualised through social-science based disciplinary perspectives *the issues at the centre of current public and professional debates surrounding literacy difficulties and how these have impacted upon pedagogical responses *the impact of these wider political and social issues on individual students. This reader forms the basis of the Open University’s Difficulties in Literacy Development course, but will also be of interest to postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, education professionals and policymakers who are keen to address difficulties in literacy development.

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