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Author: National Academy of Education. Committee on Reading
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKField guide containing color photographs, line drawings, distinquishing features, range maps, and textual descriptions for 300 species of wetland plants that occur in the northeastern U.S. Identification key and illustrated glossary are included.
Author: Harvey J. Graff
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781850001645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2016-11-14
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0309447569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an institution, science enables people to both engage in the construction of new knowledge as well as use information to achieve desired ends. Access to scienceâ€"whether using knowledge or creating itâ€"necessitates some level of familiarity with the enterprise and practice of science: we refer to this as science literacy. Science literacy is desirable not only for individuals, but also for the health and well- being of communities and society. More than just basic knowledge of science facts, contemporary definitions of science literacy have expanded to include understandings of scientific processes and practices, familiarity with how science and scientists work, a capacity to weigh and evaluate the products of science, and an ability to engage in civic decisions about the value of science. Although science literacy has traditionally been seen as the responsibility of individuals, individuals are nested within communities that are nested within societiesâ€"and, as a result, individual science literacy is limited or enhanced by the circumstances of that nesting. Science Literacy studies the role of science literacy in public support of science. This report synthesizes the available research literature on science literacy, makes recommendations on the need to improve the understanding of science and scientific research in the United States, and considers the relationship between scientific literacy and support for and use of science and research.
Author: Ed Marum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780750704205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the current situation concerning the teaching of 'English' in schools, examining particularly the notion of 'literacy'. The authors offer practical suggestions to primary and secondary teachers required to implement the revised National Curriculum Orders for English from September 1995, proposing ways in which the teaching of children's literature and that of adolescence and youth may be addressed across all four Key Stages and at 'A' level. They relate theory to good practice and offer a critique of the latest government proposals, suggesting alternative and sometimes radical approaches to teaching. It is the intention of the authors that this book should offer teachers sound, practical models which they will consider and find useful as they grapple with the challenges posed as education moves towards the year 2000.
Author: Suzanne de Castell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-10-31
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521313407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the current 'literacy crisis' alleged in professional journals and the popular press. Literacy is at once a contentious social and educational issue, a continuing concern of parents and teachers, and the focal point of a range of disciplinary inquiries. Literacy, Society, and Schooling draws together especially commissioned essays on the nature, history, and pedagogy of literacy by social historians, philosophers, literary scholars, linguists, educators, and psychologists. The editors have attempted to convey, in an accessible format, the range and diversity of the scholarly debate about literacy-theory, research, and practice. Students, teachers, and researchers will find Literacy, Society, and Schooling an invaluable resource.
Author: Haim Shaked
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1351480006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and on a wide range of sources, The Literacy Myth reevaluates the role typically assigned to literacy in historical scholarship, cultural understanding, economic development schemes, and social doctrines and ideologies.
Author: Eugene R. Kintgen
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780809314577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 28 essays reprinted here are arranged in four sections that offer theoretical, historical, educational, and community perspectives on the whole topic of literacy. In addition to their substantial introduction, the editors provide an exhaustive bibliography based on the citations to the essays. Kintgen, Kroll, and Rose see literacy as an extremely complex area of inquiry in which all aspects are interrelated, and they hope to avoid creating or perpetuating false boundaries within the field. The book’s first section contains articles dealing with various psychological and economic consequences of literacy. The second provides an introduction to the development of literacy in different eras of the West, from its inception among the Greeks to the teaching of it in North America during the past century. The third section treats the teaching of literacy in educational institutions, primarily at the secondary and post-secondary levels. The final section discusses literacy outside the traditional classroom: the development of literacy among children and adults, the functions and uses of literacy in the workplace and elsewhere, and the identity and problems of those who have not mastered literacy skills.
Author: Derek Hodson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9087905076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a guide for teachers, student teachers, teacher educators, science education researchers and curriculum developers who wish to get to grips with the vast and complex literature encompassing the history of science, philosophy of science and sociology of science (HPS).
Author: Florian Coulmas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521787376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring its long history the problem of reducing language to writing, and conversely that of interpreting written signs as language, has found a variety of solutions which still exist in the form of different writing systems. Written by a leading expert, this new textbook provides an accessible introduction to the major writing systems of the world, from cuneiform to English spelling. Florian Coulmas presents detailed descriptions of the world's writing systems and explains their structural complexities as well as the intricate relationship between written and spoken language. The book also provides a clear and engaging account of the history of writing and its consequences for human thought and literate society. This illustrated textbook includes questions for discussion at the end of each chapter, and an up-to-date explanation of theoretical issues. Clearly organised and engagingly written, it is the ideal textbook for use on courses on writing systems.
Author: Harvey J. Graff
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781412837668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and on a wide range of sources, The Literacy Myth reevaluates the role typically assigned to literacy in historical scholarship, cultural understanding, economic development schemes, and social doctrines and ideologies.
