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The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy

By David R. Olson , Nancy Torrance

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521680522, 9780521680523
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6955174 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
Edition
1
Pages
624\625
Topic
Psychology
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-10-19 04:56:04

Description

This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It does so by exploring the nature and development of writing systems, the relations between speech and writing, the history of the social uses of writing, the evolution of conventions of reading, the social and developmental dimensions of acquiring literate competencies, and, more generally, the conceptual and cognitive dimensions of literacy as a set of social practices. Contributors to the volume are leading scholars drawn from such disciplines as linguistics, literature, history, anthropology, psychology, the neurosciences, cultural psychology, and education

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