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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813531103321

Autore

Purcell-Gates Victoria

Titolo

Print literacy development : uniting cognitive and social practice theories / / Victoria Purcell-Gates, Erik Jacobson, Sophie Degener

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-04237-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 206 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JacobsonErik

DegenerSophie

Disciplina

302.2244

Soggetti

Literacy - Social aspects - United States

Cognitive learning - United States

Adult education students - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed -- CHAPTER TWO The LPALS Study -- CHAPTER THREE How Does Print Literacy Develop? -- CHAPTER FOUR Literacy as Social Practice -- CHAPTER FIVE Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development -- CHAPTER SIX The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive -- CHAPTER SEVEN Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a socio-cultural context of literacy practices.