Occupied Reading: Critical Foundations for an Ecological Theory

by Alan A. Block

Today's growing national concern about education centers on the paramount importance of teaching reading and writing. This volume offers a rigorous examination of reading and the pedagogy of reading critically. The book examines the crucial role of reading in the education of the child for the year 2000 and explores the history of reading and readers in America while surveying the attendant literacy debates. The author examines the historical progress...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815319258
• ISBN13: 9780815319252
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"