This study examines the issues underpinning current debates over 'falling literacy standards'. Rather than engaging in the debates surrounding the efficacy of particular reading programmes, it argues that the 'problem' of how to teach reading needs to be reconceptualised as a social phenonemon. The authors discuss how reading practices and the teaching of reading arise from social activity which is in turn shaped by historical, social and political contexts
In Sweden, as well as in many other countries, children’s literacy is a much debated topic. In the p...
Literacy as a Social Process A study, funded by the Australian government, explored differences in t...
This review of literacy research explores ways in which literacy has come to be understood as a prob...
Based on current research, debates and concerns, this Reader adopts a cross disciplinary approach to...
In this chapter, I explore the concept of literacy as social and cultural practice and apply its rel...
A documentary history of 'literacy' as an issue, topic and problem in the Australia print media, 194...
This article uses the example of Reading Recovery (RR) to argue that those who engage in reading deb...
Current policy, media and curriculum initiatives across Western nations are drawing literacy and lit...
This chapter engages with current public and political debates on the teaching of literacy in the ea...
In many instances in society, educational and other, literature reading is emphasised as something t...
Historically, political debates have broken out over how to teach reading in primary schools and inf...
Thesis by publication.Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Why ...
Literacy instruction or the lack of it has a wide range of social consequencespolitical, economic, c...
Socio-cultural and practice-based approaches to literacy, associated with the (New) Literacy Studies...
Reading in everyday life is commonly understood to be changing rapidly. It is increasingly multiple,...
In Sweden, as well as in many other countries, children’s literacy is a much debated topic. In the p...
Literacy as a Social Process A study, funded by the Australian government, explored differences in t...
This review of literacy research explores ways in which literacy has come to be understood as a prob...
Based on current research, debates and concerns, this Reader adopts a cross disciplinary approach to...
In this chapter, I explore the concept of literacy as social and cultural practice and apply its rel...
A documentary history of 'literacy' as an issue, topic and problem in the Australia print media, 194...
This article uses the example of Reading Recovery (RR) to argue that those who engage in reading deb...
Current policy, media and curriculum initiatives across Western nations are drawing literacy and lit...
This chapter engages with current public and political debates on the teaching of literacy in the ea...
In many instances in society, educational and other, literature reading is emphasised as something t...
Historically, political debates have broken out over how to teach reading in primary schools and inf...
Thesis by publication.Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Why ...
Literacy instruction or the lack of it has a wide range of social consequencespolitical, economic, c...
Socio-cultural and practice-based approaches to literacy, associated with the (New) Literacy Studies...
Reading in everyday life is commonly understood to be changing rapidly. It is increasingly multiple,...
In Sweden, as well as in many other countries, children’s literacy is a much debated topic. In the p...
Literacy as a Social Process A study, funded by the Australian government, explored differences in t...
This review of literacy research explores ways in which literacy has come to be understood as a prob...