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Literacy Across Languages and Cultures
Av Bernardo M. Ferdman, Rose-Marie Weber m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
502 kr
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This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more complete understanding of literacy among diverse populations and in multicultural societies requires attention to issues of literacy per se as …
Expanding Literacies
English Teaching and the New Workplace
Av Mary Sue Garay, Stephen A. Bernhardt
Inbunden, 1998
1406 kr
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Examines the escalating literacy demands of the new workplace, and makes suggestions for reshaping traditional English classes to better equip students with new skills to meet these needs.1999 Best Collection of Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication presented by the National Council of …
On Literacy and Its Teaching
Issues in English Education
Av Gail E. Hawisher, Anna O. Soter
Häftad, 1990
405 kr
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This book recognizes and embraces the complexities of modern English teaching. It presents English teachers and teacher educators with a critical view of current professional issues and concerns in the belief that these groups need, and want, to participate in curricular and professional reform …
Literate Systems and Individual Lives
Perspectives on Literacy and Schooling
Av Edward M. Jennings, Alan C. Purves
Inbunden, 1991
1080 kr
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This book raises important questions concerning the "shame" of illiteracy. What does it mean to students to be drawn into a world where family and friends cannot follow? Can the same person appear literate and illiterate at the same time? Is literacy, for that matter, an either/or condition? Does …
Idea of Difficulty in Literature
Häftad, 1991
453 kr
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This book redefines the nature of textual difficulty in literature and shows the implications of the new definition for teachers at all levels of education. Contrary to the traditional use of grade levels or readability formulae, the authors redefine difficulty in terms of readers and the texts …
Gender and the Journal
Diaries and Academic Discourse
Inbunden, 1992
1111 kr
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This book explores the gendered historical and social contexts and discursive traditions that have characterized journals and diaries in academic discourse. The tension between the term "journal," which has a variety of positive public and scholarly connotations, and the term "diary," which is …
Shaping the Preschool Agenda
Early Literacy, Public Policy, and Professional Beliefs
Häftad, 1992
390 kr
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Making all children "ready to learn" is the first, and probably the most important, national education goal for the year 2000. What does it mean for children to be "ready to learn?"This book is about the beliefs of the people who are shaping preschool policy. McGill-Franzen tells us what key …
Understanding Language Acquisition
The Framework of Learning
Häftad, 1993
413 kr
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How is language acquisition possible? How is it that humans, within a few years of birth, can speak and understand language, transcending both its limited experience and biological limitations?In this challenge to the narrow confines of psychology and philosophy, Christina Erneling argues that …
Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms
Learning From Practical Experience
Av Linda Myers
Häftad, 1993
390 kr
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This text provides a variety of practical and theoretical approaches to computer classroom design. Pedagogical, ethical, and political issues are discussed as well as nuts-and-bolts construction, adapting teaching styles to a CAI environment, use of specific hardware and software, and speculation …
Multicultural Literature and Literacies
Making Space for Difference
Av Suzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill
Häftad, 1993
486 kr
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Does literature serve a humanizing function? Can it achieve social transformation? What roles does literature play for defining self, creating community, and achieving global perspective? This is the first book to thoroughly explore the methods by which educators, creative writers, and policymakers …
Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension
Symbolic Form in the Rhetoric of Silence
Häftad, 1994
390 kr
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This book examines Eastern philosophies of meditative silence in the context of Western rhetoric and discourse theory, arguing that silence is an authentic mode of knowing. Rather than an emptiness that is nihilistic, the void of meditative silence is, according to the author, a fullness in which …
Literacy as Social Exchange
Intersections of Class, Gender, and Culture
Häftad, 1994
398 kr
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Literacy as Social Exchange examines the intersection of culture and literacy education. In particular, it explores the roles that class, race, ethnicity, and gender play in students' learning to negotiate the conventions of academic discourse. It argues that recent literacy scholarship has tended …
Revisioning Writers' Talk
Gender and Culture in Acts of Composing
Häftad, 1995
413 kr
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Stressing the social dimensions of composing, this book inquires into the problems of interpreting and representing writers' talk in both academic and self directed writing groups, arguing for the value of such talk as a distinct mode of knowing that both complements and criticizes more traditional …
Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy
An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination
Häftad, 1994
406 kr
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This book presents a selective, introductory reading of key texts in the history of magic from antiquity forward, in order to construct a suggestive conceptual framework for disrupting our conventional notions about rhetoric and literacy.Offering an overarching, pointed synthesis of the …
Writing Students
Composition Testimonials and Representations of Students
Häftad, 1994
406 kr
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This is a book about the usual teacher-student relationship in composition courses. It disrupts and rewrites the commonplace conception of the relationship by revealing the uneven ways in which power is deployed in and around the classroom. And it offers a responsible alternative. The author not …
Good Writing in Cross-Cultural Context
Av Xiao-ming Li
Inbunden, 1995
1144 kr
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This dialogue between teachers of writing in China and America on what constitutes "good writing," reveals that standards are culturally situated.Writing comments on student papers is a time-honored and widely accepted practice in writing classrooms in most countries. Teachers offer text-specific …
Good Writing in Cross-Cultural Context
Av Xiao-ming Li
Häftad, 1995
384 kr
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This dialogue between teachers of writing in China and America on what constitutes "good writing," reveals that standards are culturally situated.Writing comments on student papers is a time-honored and widely accepted practice in writing classrooms in most countries. Teachers offer text-specific …
Literacy for Citizenship
Gender and Grassroots Dynamics in Brazil
Häftad, 1997
401 kr
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Describes the experiences of a group of adult Brazilian women in a literacy program with explicit emancipatory objectives.This book explores the involvement of nineteen women in an emancipatory literacy program conducted under the administration of Paulo Freire in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study …
Changing Work, Changing Workers
Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills
Av Glynda Hull
Inbunden, 1997
1144 kr
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This glimpse into factories, hospitals, other work settings, and work-related literacy programs, shows the massive changes in expectations for workers' "skills" in the twenty-first century, especially regarding language and literacy.Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and …
Changing Work, Changing Workers
Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills
Av Glynda Hull
Häftad, 1997
440 kr
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This glimpse into factories, hospitals, other work settings, and work-related literacy programs, shows the massive changes in expectations for workers' "skills" in the twenty-first century, especially regarding language and literacy.Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and …
Language and Limits
Resisting Reform in English Studies
Häftad, 1998
462 kr
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Presents a clear and forceful counter-statement about tensions and trends in contemporary English studies, offering at the same time a carefully reasoned critique of rationalistic forces within education and culture generally.What could be more commonsensical than the notion that students need to …
Voicing Ourselves
Whose Words We Use When We Talk about Books
Häftad, 1998
452 kr
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Using Bakhtinian theory, this study reveals how and why readers routinely refer to the words and ideas of others to interpret the meanings and implications of the books they read.In a public high school classroom in the San Francisco Bay area, a group of twelfth graders have decided themselves to …
Expanding Literacies
English Teaching and the New Workplace
Av Mary Sue Garay, Stephen A. Bernhardt
Häftad, 1998
411 kr
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Examines the escalating literacy demands of the new workplace, and makes suggestions for reshaping traditional English classes to better equip students with new skills to meet these needs.1999 Best Collection of Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication presented by the National Council of …
Dramas of Solitude
Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing
Häftad, 1998
462 kr
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Brings the insights of narrative theory to bear upon the genre of nature writing, to explore the social or ethical purposes of solitude in stories of retreat in nature.What do stories of nature tell us about the social or ethical purposes of solitude? And what do stories of solitude reveal of the …
Resistant Writer
Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present
Häftad, 1999
405 kr
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A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding the role of rhetoric in student transformation.The Resistant Writer integrates two lively sub-fields in rhetoric and composition: nineteenth-century composition history and contemporary …
Time to Write
The Influence of Time and Culture on Learning to Write
Inbunden, 2015
1141 kr
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Analyzes interviews with students, teachers, and administrators to develop a new set of literacies essential for student success in the digital age."To read John's work is to take on the role of a patient listener … A book, like a piece of music, is scored for time, and I feel Time to Write is …
Time to Write
The Influence of Time and Culture on Learning to Write
Häftad, 2016
424 kr
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Analyzes interviews with students, teachers, and administrators to develop a new set of literacies essential for student success in the digital age."To read John's work is to take on the role of a patient listener … A book, like a piece of music, is scored for time, and I feel Time to Write is …
