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Making Sense, Shaping Meaning: Writing in the Context of a Capacity-Based Approach to Learning - Softcover

D'Arcy, Pat

 
9780867092455: Making Sense, Shaping Meaning: Writing in the Context of a Capacity-Based Approach to Learning

Synopsis

This book is for elementary and secondary teachers who are interested in the power that the act of writing offers to writers to bring what they "know" into a sharper focus and thereby extend their perception and understanding beyond that current knowing.

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About the Author

Pat DArcy has taught in primary, secondary modern, and comprehensive schools in the United Kingdom. Since 1979 she has worked closely with primary and secondary teachers as the English Adviser for the county of Wiltshire. Her Learning About Learning Project, which grew into the Write to Learn Project, formed jointly with the English Adviser for Somerset, is affiliated with the US and UK National Writing Projects. She has given workshops at NCTE Conferences and in California and New York. She was the first womanand the first practicing schoolteacherto chair the National Association for the Teaching of English in the United Kingdom.

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