Print Literacy Development
Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories
Published on 1. July 2009
218 pages
978-0-674-04237-7 (ISBN)
Description
The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04237-7 (9780674042377)
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Victoria Purcell-Gates | Erik Jacobson | Sophie Degener
Print Literacy Development
Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories
Book
09/2006
Harvard University Press
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Persons
Victoria Purcell-Gates is Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood Literacy at the University of British Columbia. Erik Jacobson is an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University. Sophie Degener is a Research Associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Content
Contents 1 To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed 2 The LPALS Study 3 How Does Print Literacy Develop? 4 Literacy as Social Practice 5 Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development 6 The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive 7 Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens 8 The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School Notes References Index
