16.2091, Books: Cognitive Science/Psycholinguistics: Laidlaw

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Date: 06-Jul-2005
From: Elizabeth Gangeri < Elizabeth.Gangeri at erlbaum.com >
Subject: Reinventing Curriculum: Laidlaw 

	
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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:30:37
From: Elizabeth Gangeri < Elizabeth.Gangeri at erlbaum.com >
Subject: Reinventing Curriculum: Laidlaw 
 



Title: Reinventing Curriculum 
Subtitle: A Complex-Perspective on Literacy and Writing 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
	   http://www.erlbaum.com/
	
Author: Linda Laidlaw, University of Alberta, Canada

Hardback: ISBN: 0805850422 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 69.95
Paperback: ISBN: 0805850430 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 24.50


Abstract:

In this book, Linda Laidlaw explores the questions: What happens when
children begin to write? Why is it that the teaching and practice of
writing seems at times to be difficult in schools? How might teachers work
differently to create more inviting spaces for developing literacy? The   
premise is that written texts and literacy processes are developed within a
complex "weave" of particular contexts, or ecologies, and the unique
particularity of the learner's experiences, histories, memories and
interpretations. Laidlaw offers new information about writing and literacy   
pedagogy linked to current research in the complexity sciences and
cognition, and considers the possibilities that might emerge for pedagogy
when alternative metaphors, images, and structures are considered for
writing and curriculum. The volume includes qualitative and narrative
description of writing and literacy situations, events, and pedagogy, and
elaborates the historical, theoretical, and curricular background in which
such instruction exists within contemporary schooling. 



Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Literacy / Reading

Subject Language(s): English (ENG)


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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