Literacy and Learning: Reflections on Writing, Reading, and Society
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 2009
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-470-40134-7 (ISBN)
Description
Deborah Brandt, a recipient of the Grawemeyer Award, is one of the most influential figures in literacy and education. Brandt has dedicated her career to the status of reading and writing in the United States. Her literacy research is renowned and widely studied. Literacy and Learning is an important collection of Brandt's work that includes a combination of previously published essays, previously unpublished talks, and new work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-40134-7 (9780470401347)
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THE AUTHOR
DEBORAH BRANDT is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former visiting scholar at the U.S. Department of Education. Her first book, Literacy as Involvement, won the National Council of Teachers of English David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. Her most recent book, Literacy in American Lives, won the 2002 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association and the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She was the recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in 2003.
DEBORAH BRANDT is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a former visiting scholar at the U.S. Department of Education. Her first book, Literacy as Involvement, won the National Council of Teachers of English David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. Her most recent book, Literacy in American Lives, won the 2002 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association and the Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She was the recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in 2003.
Content
Introduction: Writing at the Speed of Change ix
The Grawemeyer Award in Education: A Conversation with Deborah Brandt 1
1 Sponsors of Literacy 23
2 Literacy in American Lives: Living and Learning in a Sea of Change 47
3 Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century 67
4 Remembering Writing, Remembering Reading 91
5 Writing for a Living: Literacy and the Knowledge Economy 117
6 The Status of Writing 141
7 How Writing Is Remaking Reading 161
Conclusion: An Excerpt from Literacy in American Lives 177
Appendix: Interview Script 193
Questions for Re?ection 197
Index 199
Credit Lines 205
The Author 207
The Grawemeyer Award in Education: A Conversation with Deborah Brandt 1
1 Sponsors of Literacy 23
2 Literacy in American Lives: Living and Learning in a Sea of Change 47
3 Accumulating Literacy: Writing and Learning to Write in the Twentieth Century 67
4 Remembering Writing, Remembering Reading 91
5 Writing for a Living: Literacy and the Knowledge Economy 117
6 The Status of Writing 141
7 How Writing Is Remaking Reading 161
Conclusion: An Excerpt from Literacy in American Lives 177
Appendix: Interview Script 193
Questions for Re?ection 197
Index 199
Credit Lines 205
The Author 207