Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts

by Janet M Soler (Editor), Nancy H. Goodson (Editor), Constantine Translators (Editor)

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:	9781848607729
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Series:	E801 Reader Series
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Gavin Reid is a consultant to the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) based in Kuwait. He is also educational psychologist to REACH Learning Center in North Vancouver, Canada and a director and consultant to the Red Rose School for children with specific learning difficulties in St. Annes on Sea, Lancashire. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh from 1991-2007.

He has made over 600 conference and seminar presentations in over 45 countries including Norway, Denmark, Germany, United States, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Iceland, Poland, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, Estonia, Greece, Austria, Slovenia, Israel, Egypt, Gambia, Canada, Dubai, Kuwait and Hungary.

He currently 21 books in print in the area of teacher education in the field of dyslexia, literacy learning styles and motivation and wrote and developed the first Masters course in Specific Learning Difficulties in the UK in 1993. Many of his books are used as course texts in courses throughout the UK and in many other countries. These include: Dyslexia: A Practitioners Handbook (Wiley 1998, 2003), Dyslexia: A Complete Guide for Parents (2004), Dyslexia and Inclusion (2005) and Learning Styles and Inclusion (2005). Some of his books have been translated into Arabic, Polish, Italian and Greek.
He is co-author of a computer aided diagnostic assessment and profiling procedures (Special Needs Assessment Profile –SNAP) which has received three national award commendations and was winner of the Special Needs Category at the NASEN/TES book awards in Birmingham, UK in March 2006.
He has been invited to be external examiner at fifteen universities world wide for Ph D candidates and masters courses. He was a member of the British Dyslexia Association Teacher Training Accreditation Board from 1996-2007 and was also overseas patron for the Learning and Behaviour Charitable Trust in New Zealand. He is the international consultant for the Canadian Academy of Therapeutic Tutors.

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