Literacy : an advanced resource book

Literacy is a comprehensive textbook which provides students and researchers with support for advanced study of the topic. It introduces readers to a broad range of approaches to understanding literacy in educational contexts and in society.

Literacy:

integrates psychological, educational and anthropological approaches to literacy and its consequences for individuals and society gathers together influential readings from key names in this inter-disciplinary field, including: Catherine Snow, David Olson, and Mike Cole presents teachers, students and researchers with many diverse opportunities to explore for themselves a broad range of perspectives and methods of study.

Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Literacy is an essential textbook for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.

• A Introduction
• A1 Why study literacy?Texts Phillips
• "One million illiterate children - but how many more will it take before this pernicious ideology is destroyed?" Halpin
• "Illiterate millions shame our schools" Griffin
• "Hooked on Phonics? We Should Lose This Addiction"
• A2 Organisation of the book
• A3 Keywords
• A4 Encounters with Literacy
• Texts
• Burningham
• The Cupboard
• Aiken
• The Bread Bin Gourdie
• The Puffin Book of Handwriting: how to write well with everyday materials Brockes
• "The phoney graffiti war and the killing that shocked an estate" Hall and Robinson
• "Fhamida's register" Cowan
• "Putting it Out There: Revealing Latino Visual Discourse in the Hispanic Academic Program"
• Farmland Dairies milk carton
• Boiler settings
• Powers, "Losing Our Souls, Bit by Bit"
• A5 Academic study of literacy - mapping the field
• A5.1 Meanings of 'Literacy' in Different Traditions
• A5.2 Literacy acquisition
• A5.3 Consequences of literacy
• A5.4 Literacy as social practice
• A5.5 New literacies
• B Extensions
• B1 Keywords
• B1.1 Educational terms Stierer and Bloome
• Reading words: a commentary of key terms in the teaching of reading
• B1.2 Anthropological terms Besnier
• "Literacy"
• B1.3 Psychological terms Snow
• "Introduction" to
• Preventing reading difficulties in young children
• B2 Literacy acquisition
• B2.1 Beginning to read Adams
• "Beginning to read: an overview"
• B2.2 Whole language
• Goodman, "Learning and Teaching Reading and Writing"
• B2.3 Social challenges and policy Snow
• Preventing reading difficulties in young children
• B2.4 Literacy in schools
• Street & Street "The Schooling of Literacy"
• B3 Consequences of literacy
• B3.1 Goody
• The Domestication of the Savage Mind
• B3.2 Testing the literacy thesis
• Scribner & Cole, "Unpackaging Literacy"
• Bl3.3 Autonomous vs. ideological models of literacy Street
• Literacy in Theory and Practice
• B3.4 Demythologising literacy Olson
• The World on Paper
• B4 Literacy as social practice
• B4.1 Literacy practices Barton and Hamilton
• "Literacy practices"
• B4.2 Literacy and identity Bartlett and Holland
• "Theorizing the Space of Literacy Practices"
• B4.3 Multilingual literacies Martin-Jones and Jones
• "Multilingual Literacies: rea