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Print literacy development : uniting cognitive and social practice theories /

Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Purcell-Gates, Victoria
Other Authors: Jacobson, Erik, Degener, Sophie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Literacy > Social aspects.
Cognitive learning.
Educational psychology.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780674042377
0674042379
9780674022546
0674022548
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER ONE To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed
  • CHAPTER TWO The LPALS Study
  • CHAPTER THREE How Does Print Literacy Develop?
  • CHAPTER FOUR Literacy as Social Practice
  • CHAPTER FIVE Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development
  • CHAPTER SIX The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens
  • CHAPTER EIGHT The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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