Description
Book SynopsisTwo scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with particular attention to what they consider the central goal of literacy - making meaning. Each section describes a specific epoch, including a deep discussion of the ideas and contextual events of that era.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: An Overview
- Part I: Looking back
- 1. Beginning Traces: Early Science and Cultural Concerns
- Enculturated Reader
- Foundational Years of Reading
- 2. Early Method
- Assembled Reader
- Search for Best Method
- Part II: Waves of development
- 3. The Cognitive Wave
- Constructivist Reader
- The Cognitive Turn
- 4. The Learning to Learn Wave
- Strategic Reader
- Learning to Learn
- 5. The Reading-Writing Wave
- Writerly Reader
- Reading-Writing Relationships
- 6. The Social Wave
- Social Readers
- Social Wave
- 7. The Critical Wave
- Critical Advocate
- Critical Literacies
- 8. The Assessment Wave Wave
- Self-Assessor Reader
- Wave of New Assessment Paradigms
- 9. The Reform Wave
- Regulated Reader
- The Era of Reform
- 10. The Digital Wave
- Digital Reader
- Digital Wave
- 11. The Global Wave
- Global Meaning Maker
- Globalization
- Part III: Ebb, Flow, and Overlap
- 12. Research Currents
- History Unaccounted: A Personal Retrospective on Waves of Development
- Index
- About the Authors
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