In this book, the author outlines a revolutionary four-tiered model of how a learner acquires language, and suggests ways to impose visual language functions onto an auditory language like English in order to improve learning for both neuro-typical learners and those with neurog…
With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning -- and the changing nature of literacy itself -- in today's K-12 classrooms. The focus is on varied technologies and literacies such as social networking si…
With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning -- and the changing nature of literacy itself -- in today's K-12 classrooms. The focus is on varied technologies and literacies such as social networking si…
"The Power of Words examines the struggle for literacy in the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically sensitive coastal province of Guangdong in southeastern China between 1949 and 1995. Addressing the Mao Zedong era as well as the profound economic changes of …
This title offers a research based new approach to understanding literacy as a process and a social practice, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. "Mapping Multiple Literacies" brings together the latest theory and research in the fields of literacy study and European ph…
Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment amon…
The Social Uses of Literacy: Theory and Practice in Contemporary South Africa challenges state-driven policy and provision in South Africa around the construction of a national delivery system for adult literacy that is part of a programme for Adult Basic Education. The implicat…
This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa. This approach treats literacy not simply as a set of technical skills learnt in formal education, but as social practices embedded in specific c…
