Reclaiming Reading: Teachers, Students, and Researchers Regaining Spaces for Thinking and Action
- ISBN-10
- 1136837914
- ISBN-13
- 9781136837913
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-22
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Richard J. Meyer, Kathryn F. Whitmore
Description
This book examines how the teaching of reading can be reclaimed from government mandates, scripted commercial programs, and high stakes tests via intensive reconsideration of learning, teaching, curriculum, language, and sociocultural contexts.
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