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Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy

By Gunther Kress

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0415138043, 9780415138048, 9780203992692
LCC
LB1576 .K67 1997
Open Library ID
OL979084M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2674443 bytes)
Pages
208\200
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children constantly produce (drawings, cuttings-out, 'writings' and collages), Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions; actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and writing.This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and action. It places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children as young adults, and calls for the radical decentring of language in educational theory and practice.

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