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Author Soler, Janet.

Title Literacy crises and reading policies : children still can't read! / Janet Soler and Roger Openshaw.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 224 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.
Contents Re-emerging debates over methods and standards : 1945-1965 -- Reading debates and the Bullock report, 1968-1975 -- Post-Bullock reactions to a literacy crisis, 1975-1983 -- The renewed reading standards debate of the early 1990s -- The advent of national literacy strategies -- Reading recovery : a comparative case study.
Summary The authors build a convincing case that the problem of how to teach reading needs to be re-conceptualized as part of a deeply social phenomenon. The study addresses the critical issue of literacy crises around the world and questions their wider sociological and educational impact.
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Subject Reading -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Reading -- Social aspects.
Great Britain.
Reading.
Education and state -- Great Britain.
Education and state.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Openshaw, Roger.
Other Form: Print version: Soler, Janet. Literacy crises and reading policies. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006 0415336767 (DLC) 2005018271 (OCoLC)60776738
ISBN 0203422473 (electronic book)
9780203422472 (electronic book)
0415336767 (Cloth)
9780415336765 (hardback)
9780415649742
0415649749