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Literacy : an international handbook

Author: Daniel A Wagner; Richard L Venezky; Brian V Street
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
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An interdisciplinary volume of 82 essays which tackles a wide array of scholarly and social issues, from early reading to adult literacy, through an international perspective. Contributors approach  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Literacy.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999
(OCoLC)657310162
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel A Wagner; Richard L Venezky; Brian V Street
ISBN: 0813390583 9780813390581
OCLC Number: 40119899
Description: xv, 526 p. ; 27 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Federico Mayor --
Rationales, Debates, and New Directions: An Introduction / Daniel A. Wagner --
Historical and Philosophical Roots --
The History of Reading, Paul Saenger --
Literacy in Social History / Daniel P. Resnick, Jay L. Gordon --
Languages and Scripts in Contact: Historical Perspectives / H. Russell Bernard --
The Implications of Literacy / Jack Goody --
The Meanings of Literacy / Brian V. Street --
Psychological Approaches --
Children's Reading Acquisition / Joanna K. Uhry, Linnea C. Ehri --
Adult Reading Acquisition / John P. Sabatini --
Reading Disability / Anne Fowler, Hollis S. Scarborough --
Diagnosis and Remediation in Reading / Dale M. Willows, Catherine Watson --
Diagnosis and Remediation in Writing Development / Uri Shafrir --
Metacognitive Aspects of Literacy / Scott G. Paris, Andrea DeBruin-Parecki --
Literacy and Cognition / Ageliki Nicolopoulou, Michael Cole --
Sociological and Anthropological Approaches --
Sociological and Anthropological Issues in Literacy / Ruth Finnegan --
Ethnic and Minority Issues in Literacy / Bernardo M. Ferdman --
Literacy and Social Practice / Shirley Brice Heath --
Ethnography of Writing / Amy Shuman, Bennis Blue --
Literacy and Religion: The Word, the Holy Word, and the World / Cushla Kapitzke --
Reading, Writing, and Salvation: The Impact of Christian Missionaries on Literacy / Richard L. Venezky --
Language and Literacy --
Orality and Literacy / Niko Besnier --
Literacy and Language Development / David R. Olson.
Responsibility: edited by Daniel A. Wagner, Richard L. Venezky, Brian V. Street.
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