Understanding Phonics And The Teaching Of Reading
A Critical Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2008
212 pages
978-0-335-23513-1 (ISBN)
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This groundbreaking book offers critical perspectives on the teaching of reading and phonics, openly challenging contemporary policy in both England and the US.
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Kathy Goouch | Andrew Lambirth
Understanding Phonics and the Teaching of Reading: A Critical Perspective
A Critical Perspective
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12/2007
Open University Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Half title
- Title title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: sound and fury
- Chapter 1 What is early childhood for?
- Chapter 2 Parents' voices: a conversation with parents of pre-school children
- Chapter 3 Understanding educational discourse: attending to multiple voices
- Chapter 4 The limits of science in the phonics debate
- Chapter 5 Teachers' voices: talking about childern and learning to read
- Chapter 6 To codify pedagogy or enrich learning? A Wengerian perspective on early literacy policy in England
- Chapter 7 Social class and the struggle to learn to read: using Bernstein to understand the politics of the teaching of reading
- Chapter 8 Learning to read across languages: the role of phonics and synthetic phonics
- Chapter 9 Inquiry into meaning: a conversation
- Chapter 10 Revisiting reading for pleasure: diversity, delight and desire
- Index
- Back cover
