Literacy and Education continues to be an accessible guide to current theory on literacy with practical applications in the classroom. This new edition has a new focus on the ecologies...
CLASH OF PARADIGMS : THE GEE / SNOW DEBATE It is not difficult to predict how policy - makers and researchers who align themselves with autonomous conceptions of literacy as primarily an individual cognitive skill will respond to the ...
In her work on listening, Alison Clark also found that a further stage, which involves a process of reflecting on what children have produced with children, enabled a deeper understanding of children's meanings as they were produced, ...
Tactics are the ways the people who live within institutionalized spaces use, manipulate and divert the space to which they are assigned (De Certeau, 1984: 18; Larson and Gatto, 2004: 14). Larson described how in Gatto's classroom, ...
Here we return to Joanne Larson and Jackie Marsh's (2005) work to think about diversity in thinking through pedagogy and curriculum. In their book Making Literacy Real (2005), Larson and Marsh present a model that includes four ...
An interesting aspect of the Curriculum for Excellence is that literacy, next to numeracy and health and wellbeing, ... here is similar to the searchlight model, including sight vocabulary, context clues, punctuation and grammar.
There are initiatives to get children to enjoy reading, activities to help develop their vocabulary and other ... Schools and local education authorities draw on the educational aims set out by the CfE and the broad structure for ...
Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one.
Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one.