Reinventing Curriculum: A Complex Perspective on Literacy and Writing

by Linda Laidlaw

Book Overview

In this book, Linda Laidlaw explores the questions: What happens when children begin to write? Why is it that the teaching and practice of writing seems at times to be difficult in schools? How might teachers work differently to create more inviting spaces for developing literacy? The premise is that written texts and literacy processes are developed within a complex "weave" of particular contexts, or ecologies, and the unique particularity of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805850422
• ISBN13: 9780805850420
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"