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The Great Literacy Debate: A Critical Response to the Literacy Strategy and the Framework for English book cover

1st Edition

The Great Literacy Debate A Critical Response to the Literacy Strategy and the Framework for English

Edited By Andrew Goodwyn, Carol Fuller Copyright 2011
192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The nature of literacy is an issue of global debate. When the National Literacy Strategy [NLS] was introduced into UK schools it was arguably the most ambitious educational reform programme in the world, and the controversy necessarily intensified. How can the impact of such reforms be assessed? In its ten year history the NLS affected every primary and secondary teacher in the country and,... Read more

A. Goodwyn, Introduction.  A. Burn, Beyond the Heuristic of Suspicion: the Value of Media Literacy.  V. Ellis, What happened to teachers’ knowledge when they played ‘The Literacy Game’?  D. Myhill, Policing Grammar - the Place of Grammar in Literacy Policy.  R. Beard, The Origins, Evaluations and Implications of the National Literacy Strategy in England.  S. Dix, G. Cawkwell & T. Locke, New Zealand’s Literacy Strategy: A Lengthening Tail and Wagging Dogs.  B. Street, NLS1 and NLS2: Implications of a Social Literacies Perspective for Policies and Practices of Literacy Education.  A. Goodwyn, The Impact of the Framework for English: Teachers Struggle against ‘Informed Prescription’.  A. Lefstein, The Great Literacy Debate as Makeover Television: Notes on Genre Proliferation.  D. Wyse, The Public, the Personal, and the Teaching of English, Language and Literacy.

Biography

Andrew Goodwyn is Head of the Institute of Education, University of Reading.

Carol Fuller is at the Institute of Education, University of Reading.

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