Literacy Crises and Reading Policies: Children Still Can't Read! - Hardcover

Soler, Janet; Openshaw, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415336767 ISBN 13: 9780415336765

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

This widely researched comparative study addresses the critical issue of literacy crises around the world and questions their wider sociological and educational impact.  The recurring literacy crises in England and English speaking countries such as the US and New Zealand are linked to wider issues of educational standards, concepts of teacher professionalism, debates over curriculum content and the whole purpose of schooling, in order for us to obtain a deeper understanding of specific national contexts and the political pressures involved. 

The authors' comparative approach enables them to uniquely demonstrate how literacy crises in one country can actually stimulate and shape literacy crises in another, as well as illustrating that these crises frequently share common features across time and geographical boundaries. 

Rather than championing any 'one best' method of teaching reading, central questions are addressed and discussed, which will make this ground-breaking book essential reading for policy makers, teachers and students in literacy and education studies. 

About this title

About the Author:

Janet Soler is a senior lecturer at the Open University and has co-edited three Readers for RoutledgeFalmer (co-published with the OU) Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development, Addressing Difficulties in Literacy Development and Meeting Difficulties in Literacy Development.
Roger Openshaw is Professor at Massy University and has authored ten books, mostly with the antipodean publishers Dunmore Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415336767
• ISBN 13: 9780415336765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232