Pathways to Literacy

by Trevor Cairney and Trevor H. Caimey

This text recognizes that there is no simple way to develop literacy. It begins with the central premise that literacy is not simply a cognitive process, but a set of social practices used in socio-cultural contexts, and argues that literacy learners come to school with unique social histories that need to be recognised in the programmes devised to facilitate learning. Cairney claims that literacy is not a unitary social practice and suggests that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304327239
• ISBN13: 9780304327232
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"