Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development: Exploring Politics, Culture, Ethnicity and Ethics

by Reid,Gavin; Reid,Gavin

• ISBN13: 9780415289016
• ISBN10: 0415289017
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136486197
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-11-15
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
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Summary

This book provides a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives on difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team of contributors provide ethical and policy discussions, as well as contextualizing individual and collective strategies to addressing difficulties in literacy development. The chapters break new ground by encompassing a wide range of perspectives related to critical literacy, socio-cultural, cognitive, and psychological viewpoints, to help inform practice, policy and research into literacy difficulties. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, education professionals and policy makers who are keen to address difficulties in literacy development.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(2)
Policy contexts and the debates over how to teach literacy	3	(12)
Janet Soler
PART 1 What is literacy: a simple or complex process?	15	(44)
Literacy: in search of a paradigm	17	(30)
Naz Rassool
Framing the issues in literacy education	47	(12)
Frances Christie
Ray Misson
PART 2 Are there increasing difficulties with literacy?	59	(56)
Explanations of the current international `literacy crises'	61	(12)
Anthony R. Welch
Peter Freebody
Simply doing their job? The politics of reading standards and `real books'	73	(10)
Barry Stierer
When will the phonics police come knocking?	83	(4)
O. L. Davis JR
Literacy assessment and the politics of identities	87	(15)
Sharon Murphy
Learning difficulties and the New Literacy Studies: a socially-critical perspective	102	(13)
Bill Green
Alex Kostogriz
PART 3 Political and historical considerations: curricula and programmatic responses to literacy difficulties	115	(70)
A veteran enters the Reading Wars: my journey	117	(16)
Shirley A. Carson
Reading Recovery and Pause, Prompt, Praise: professional visions and current practices	133	(19)
Janice Wearmouth
Janet Soler
How inclusive is the Literacy Hour?	152	(14)
Janice Wearmouth
Janet Soler
Developmental dyslexia: into the future	166	(19)
Roderick I. Nicolson
PART 4 Impact of social class, culture, ethnicity and gender	185	(60)
Texts in context: mapping out the gender differentiation of the reading curriculum	187	(14)
Gemma Moss
The literacy acquisition of Black and Asian EAL learners: anti-racist assessment and intervention challenges	201	(10)
Theresa Reed
Bilingualism and literacies in primary school: implications for professional development	211	(15)
Deirdre Martin
Psychosocial factors in the aetiology and course of specific learning disabilities	226	(19)
Thomas G. O'Connor
Robert C. Pianta
PART 5 How can political, social and cultural factors impact upon individual difficulties with literacy?	245	(40)
Myths of illiteracy: childhood memories of reading in London's East End	247	(20)
Eve Gregory
New times! Old ways?	267	(18)
Colin Lankshear
Michele Knobel
PART 6 Ethical and social justice issues	285	(36)
Justice, literacy, and impediments to learning literacy	287	(16)
Joseph A. Diorio
Reforming special education: beyond `inclusion'	303	(18)
Michael M. Gerber
Index	321