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SAGE PUBLISHING Understanding Difficulties In Literacy Development Issues And Concepts 2009 Edition by Soler
Based on current research, debates and concerns, this Reader 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.The Reader first considers questions of literacy, before going on to look at literacy development in relation to:" Issues and concepts in public reading debates " Literacy curriculum policy contexts" Community, family, society and individual identity " Social justice and equity issues and learning disabilitiesThis Reader is relevant to all postgraduate students of Literacy, as well as educators, professionals and policy makers. PART ONE: WHAT IS LITERACY? WHAT ARE 'DIFFICULTIES IN LITERACY'?Literacy: In search of a paradigm - Naz RassoolGlobalisation, literacy and society: Redesigning pedagogy and assessment - David Johnson and Gunther KressThe historical construction of dylsexia: Implications for Higher Education - Janet SolerPART TWO: ISSUES AND CONCEPTS IN PUBLIC READING DEBATES Literacy as a complex activity: Deconstructing the simple view of reading - Morag Stuart, Rhona Stainthorp, Maggie SnowlingThe irrelevancy - and danger - of the 'simple view' of reading to meaningful standards - Victoria Purcell-GatesEhri's model of phases of learning to read: A brief critique - John R BeechSiblings bridging literacies in multilingual contexts - Ann Williams and Eve GregoryBoys' underachievement: Issues, challenges and possible ways forward - Joe Burns and Paul BraceyRe-counting 'Illiteracy': Literacy skills in the sociology of social inequality - Geoff PaynePART THREE: LITERACY CURRICULUM POLICY CONTEXTSResearch and the National Literacy Strategy - Roger BeardLiteracy 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 OpenshawPowerful literacies: The policy context - Mary Hamilton, Catherine Macrae and Lyn TettPART FOUR: COMMUNITY, FAMILY, SOCIETY AND INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY The self-concept and its relationship to educational achievement - Robert BurdenThe self-concept and dyslexia - David PollakPART FIVE: SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUITY ISSUES AND LEARNING DISABILITIESSpecial education's changing identity: Paradoxes and dilemmas in views of culture and space - Alfredo J ArtilesThe cultural work of learning disabilities - Ray McDermott, Shelley Goldman and Herve Varenne