| Description |
xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Language and literacy in social context |
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Language and literacy in social context.
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Conceptualising Changing Perspectives. 1. Introducing the New Literacy / John Willinsky. 2. The Emergence of Literacy / Nigel Hall. 3. Media Education: The Limits of a Discourse / David Buckingham -- Pt. 2. Language and Learning in Culture and Practice. 4. Extracts from Thought and Language and Mind in Society / L. S. Vygotsky. 5. From Communicating to Talking / Jerome Bruner. 6. What Does It Mean To Be Bilingual? / Barbara M. Mayor. 7. Neo-Vygotskian Theory and Classroom Education / Neil Mercer -- Pt. 3. The Discourse of Reading Pedagogy. 8. Sponsored Reading Failure / Martin Turner. 9. 'Simply Doing their Job?' The Politics of Reading Standards and 'Real Books' / Barry Stierer -- Pt. 4. The Practice of Talk in Classrooms. 10. Talking in Class: Four Rationales for the Rise of Oracy in the UK / Maggie MacLure. 11. Distinctive Features of Pupil-Pupil Classroom Talk and Their Relationship to Learning: How Discursive Exploration Might be Encouraged / Eunice Fisher. 12. What Do We Do About Gender? / Joan Swann. 13. Communication and Control / Derek Edwards and Neil Mercer. 14. The Value of 'Time Off Task': Young Children's Spontaneous Talk and Deliberate Text / Anne Haas Dyson. 15. Talk and Assessment / Harry Torrance -- Pt. 5. The Practice of Writing in Classrooms. 16. Social Processes in Education: A Reply to Sawyer and Watson (and others) / J. R. Martin, Frances Christie and Joan Rothery. 17. Genre Theory: What's It All About? / Myra Barrs. 18. Authorizing Disadvantage: Authorship and Creativity in the Language Classroom / Pam Gilbert. 19. What Do We Mean by Knowledge About Language? / John Richmond. 20. Development of Dialectical Processes in Composition / Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter |
| Summary |
"Language and literacy are highly contested areas of the curriculum. Questions of what should be taught, how it should be taught, and who should control such decisions, are increasingly subjected to public scrutiny, debate and challenge in a manner which is often more reflection of competing social and political values than of theory and research evidence." "In recent years there has been a rapid development of new conceptual frameworks for understanding language literacy and learning, from such diverse fields as anthropology, cultural studies, social psychology, and critical linguistics. The papers in this collection have been chosen because they will help readers to consider ways in which these new developments in theory and research may be applied to everyday practice."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Schools Curriculum Language |
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English language Composition and exercises Study and teaching |
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Language |
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Language arts |
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Oral communication |
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Reading |
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Schools Curriculum Language |
| Notes |
"Compiled as a part of an Open University MA course called Language and literacy in social context (E825)"--Pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
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English language -- Study and teaching.
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Language arts.
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Oral communication.
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Reading.
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| Author |
Maybin, Janet, 1950-
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Stierer, Barry.
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| LC no. |
93029911 |
| ISBN |
185359217X (paperback) |
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1853592188 (hbk) |
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