Children And Books In The Modern World: Contemporary Perspectives On Literacy / Edition 1

by Ed Marum

Overview

This text is concerned with contemporary attitudes and approaches to the teaching of literacy, children's literature and other non-book texts and media. Based on research from the UK, the USA and Europe it makes a contribution to theory and practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750705424
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/30/1996
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - literacy now; Part 1 National perspectives on literacy policy: literacy - its roller coaster ride through US education, John S. Simmons; beyond England's National Curriculum for English, Ed Marum; core curriculum, cultural heritage, literacy - recent perspectives and trends in Norwegian education, Bjorg B. Gundem. Part 2 Teaching and research perspectives on literacy: how do we evaluate the literature curriculum? About a social frame of reference, Gert Rijlaarsdam and Tanja Janssen; students as self-assessors - learning experiences of literature teaching in secondary schools, Tanja Janssen and Gert Rijlaarsdam; outside Forster's machine - re-representing technology in the age of cyberspace, Neil Campbell. Part 3 Books, literacy and other things: reading more than print, Ed Marum; a tentative non-conclusion, Ed Marum.