Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development - Exploring Politics, Culture, Ethnicity and Ethics (Hardcover)

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 contextualising 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.
Issues addressed include:
*the different ways literacy can be conceptualised through social-science based disciplinary perspectives
*the issues at the centre of current public and professional debates surrounding literacy difficulties and how these have impacted upon pedagogical responses
*social, cultural and ethnic factors which impact upon difficulties in literacy development
*the impact of these wider political and social issues on individual students
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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	Gavin Reid • Janet Soler • Janice Wearmouth
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-28900-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Literacy
LSN:	0-415-28900-9
Barcode:	9780415289009

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