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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777313003321

Autore

Cairney Trevor

Titolo

Pathways to literacy / / Trevor H. Cairney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Cassell, , 1995

ISBN

0-304-32721-2

1-281-29112-9

9786611291129

1-4411-7503-2

1-84714-377-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)

Collana

Children, teachers, and learning

Disciplina

302.2244

Soggetti

Literacy - Study and teaching

English language - Study and teaching

Language arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Towards a Sociocultural Understanding of Literacy; 2 Making Connections: The Importance of Community to Literacy Learning; 3 The Teacher, the Student, the Text; 4 Creating Literacy Environments; 5 Developing Readers Who Read; 6 Developing Writers Who Write; 7 Assessing Literacy Learning; 8 Programming for Literacy Instruction; 9 Tackling the Tough Questions; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text recognizes that there is no simple way to develop literacy. It begins with the central premise that literacy is not simply a cognitive process, but a set of social practices used in socio-cultural contexts, and argues that literacy learners come to school with unique social histories that need to be recognised in the programmes devised to facilitate learning. Cairney claims that literacy is not a unitary social practice and suggests that there are many forms of literacy, each with specific purposes and contexts in which they are used.