Print Literacy Development: Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories

by Erik Jacobson, Victoria Purcell-Gates, Sophie Degener, et al.

Book Overview

Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022548
• ISBN13: 9780674022546
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"