Before Writing

Rethinking the Paths to Literacy
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-13804-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children constantly produce (drawings, cuttings-out, 'writings' and collages), Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions; actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and writing.
This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and action. It places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities and dispositions essential for children as young adults, and calls for the radical decentring of language in educational theory and practice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kress, Gunther

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of colour plates, List of figures, Preface, 1 Literacy, identity and futures, 2 ‘My Gawd, I made it like Australia’:making meaning in many media, 3 Making sense of the world:‘The seagulls are reading the newspaper’, 4 Drawing letters and writing dinosaurs:children’s early engagement with print, 5 ‘You made it like a crocodile’:a theory of children’s meaning-making, 7 Teaching literacy, learning literacy, 8 Futures, Sources and contexts, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gunther Kress