34.2401, Books: Reading to Learn, Reading the World: Acevedo, Rose, Whittaker (eds.)

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Date: 25-Jul-2023
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Reading to Learn, Reading the World: Acevedo, Rose, Whittaker (eds.) 


Title: Reading to Learn, Reading the World
Subtitle: How Genre-based Literacy Pedagogy is Democratizing Education
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
                http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/reading-learn/

Editor: Claire Acevedo
Editor: David Rose
Editor: Rachel Whittaker
Hardback: ISBN: 9781800503236 Pages: 330 Price: U.S. $ 100
Paperback: ISBN: 9781800503243 Pages: 330 Price: U.S. $ 34
Electronic: ISBN: 9781800503250 Pages: 330 Price: U.S. $ 34
Abstract:

This volume showcases a range of Reading to Learn (R2L) projects from
around the world in a variety of educational settings in many
different languages. The pedagogy emerged over two decades from a
coalescence of idealism, academic research and teachers’ experience.
One ideal shared by everyone involved in R2L has been to become a more
effective teacher, and to help others do so. Underlying this drive to
excel is the democratic ideal that education should be equally
available, inclusive and effective for every student.

In the first chapter David Rose recounts the origins of R2L in work
with Indigenous Australian children, informed by genre writing and
scaffolded reading pedagogies. Three following chapters celebrate the
impact of the methodology in settings of educational disadvantage in
Australian schools.

Further chapters describe the efficacy of the methodology around the
world in a variety of languages, often in very challenging educational
settings. Stories from Africa detail the successes of R2L pedagogy in
South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. In Europe, a ground-breaking
project to adapt the methodology for the education of deaf and
hearing-impaired students working in Swedish Sign Language (SSL) is
described. Also in Sweden, a long-term project to train teachers
working in disadvantaged schools grew out of the success of the
EU-funded project, Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education
(TeL4ELE). Following chapters describe how the TeL4ELE project
unfolded and spread R2L to Portuguese and Spanish schools and teacher
education.

Chapters from the Americas provide stories of success from a US
community education project with Spanish-speaking mothers learning
English, a tertiary setting in Colombia where the methodology has been
used as a cross-faculty initiative, and a literacy outreach program
from a university in Argentina for teachers from disadvantaged local
schools. Final chapters include an evaluation of the R2L methodology
in comparison with other literacy methods used in Argentina, an
analysis of the R2L methodology for teaching mathematics in Chile and
a project to teach scientific literacy with Indonesian school
students, in both Indonesian and English.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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