Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts / Edition 1

Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
1848607733
ISBN-13:
9781848607736
Pub. Date:
09/28/2009
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
1848607733
ISBN-13:
9781848607736
Pub. Date:
09/28/2009
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts / Edition 1

Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts / Edition 1

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Overview

Based on current research, debates and concerns, Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts adopts a cross disciplinary approach to understanding and working with those who experience difficulties with literacy. It provides a broad view of difficulties in literacy and related educational and curriculum learning issues across a range of ages, phases and settings.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848607736
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 09/28/2009
Series: E801 Reader Series
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr. Gavin Reid is an international consultant and psychologist with consultancies in Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia. He was visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in the Department of Education and Counseling Psychology and Special Education in 2007 and 2010.

He is an ambassador for the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre in the UK and is also a consultant for the Child Enrichment Medical Centre in Dubai, the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Kuwait and for the Institute of Child Education and Psychology Europe (ICEPE).

He is also currently a consultant to the Open University in the UK and co-founder and director of the Red Rose School for children with specific learning difficulties in St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire, UK. He is a visiting educational psychologist to organizations and schools in Switzerland, the UK, Middle East, Asia and Egypt.

He was formerly senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies (formally dept. of Special Education), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh from 1991-2007. He has written twenty eight books on learning, motivation and dyslexia and lectured to thousands of professionals and parents in 75 countries. He has also had books published in Polish, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Chinese and Slovak. He is an experienced teacher with over 10 years experience in the classroom and has held external examiner appointments at 18 universities worldwide for Ph.D and masters courses.

His e mail is gavinreid66@gmail.com and website www.drgavinreid.com

Table of Contents

PART ONE: WHAT IS LITERACY? WHAT ARE 'DIFFICULTIES IN LITERACY'?
Literacy: In search of a paradigm - Naz Rassool
Globalisation, literacy and society: Redesigning pedagogy and assessment - David Johnson and Gunther Kress
The historical construction of dylsexia: Implications for Higher Education - Janet Soler
PART TWO: ISSUES AND CONCEPTS IN PUBLIC READING DEBATES
Literacy as a complex activity: Deconstructing the simple view of reading - Morag Stuart, Rhona Stainthorp, Maggie Snowling
The irrelevancy - and danger - of the 'simple view' of reading to meaningful standards - Victoria Purcell-Gates
Ehri's model of phases of learning to read: A brief critique - John R Beech
Siblings bridging literacies in multilingual contexts - Ann Williams and Eve Gregory
Boys' underachievement: Issues, challenges and possible ways forward - Joe Burns and Paul Bracey
Re-counting 'Illiteracy': Literacy skills in the sociology of social inequality - Geoff Payne
PART THREE: LITERACY CURRICULUM POLICY CONTEXTS
Research and the National Literacy Strategy - Roger Beard
Literacy policy and policy literacy: A tale of phonics in early reading in England - Kathy Hall
'To be or not to be?': The politics of teaching phonics in England and New Zealand - Janet Soler and Roger Openshaw
Powerful literacies: The policy context - Mary Hamilton, Catherine Macrae and Lyn Tett
PART FOUR: COMMUNITY, FAMILY, SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY
The self-concept and its relationship to educational achievement - Robert Burden
The self-concept and dyslexia - David Pollak
PART FIVE: SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUITY ISSUES AND LEARNING DISABILITIES
Special education's changing identity: Paradoxes and dilemmas in views of culture and space - Alfredo J Artiles
The cultural work of learning disabilities - Ray Mc Dermott, Shelley Goldman and Hervé Varenne

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