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Arbeitsorientierte Grundbildung
W. Bertelsmann Verlag 2011; US$ 21.46Hauptbeschreibung Der Leitfaden geht auf die Ursachen und Auswirkungen von funktionalem Analphabetismus ein. Er beschreibt die Lebenssituation der Betroffenen und wird durch Fallbeispiele und Zitate ergänzt. Fachkräfte, die mit der Implementierung entsprechender Angebote vor Ort betraut sind, erhalten eine praxisnahe Hilfestellung zur Umsetzung... more...
Emotionale Bedingungen des Fernstudiums
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 59.30Hauptbeschreibung Negative Emotionen, wie zum Beispiel Angst, können den Lernprozess hemmen. Schlechte Ergebnisse sind die Folge. Positive Emotionen, wie Freude am Lernen, bringen dagegen i. d. R. positivere Ergebnisse mit sich. Diese Tatsache ist in der Praxis des Unterrichts und Lernens seit langem bekannt. Aber spielen im Fernstudium die gleichen... more...
City Literacies
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 58.95City Literacies explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in two contrasting areas of London at the end of the 20th century: Spitalfields and the City. This contrast outwardly symbolizes the huge difference between poverty and wealth existing in Britain at this time. The book presents a study of living, learning... more...
Talking About Literacy
Taylor and Francis 1992; US$ 63.95Talking about Literacy re-examines dominant notions of what litreracy is, and challenges the problem-solution reflex to the issue (the problem is illiteracy: the solution is more literacy). Literacy has enormous emotional and political associations, and the job of literacy educator often concerns changing attitudes and challenging prejudices - whether... more...
Local Literacies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Britain, the authors analyze how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. This exploration provides a description of literacy at one point in time, and also reveals the nature and significance of communication... more...
Literacy in American Lives
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 35.00This book traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century. more...
Achieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95RAND gathered information from the 50 states and theDistrict of Columbia (DC) on state assessment systems and studentperformance on reading or English language arts and writing assessments inorder to measure adolescent?s (grades 4 through 12) performance toward stateliteracy goals. more...
Adult Literacy as Social Practice
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 56.95With a radically new perspective on reading, writing and mathematics for adults, this refreshing and challenging book shows how teachers and curriculum developers have much to gain from understanding the role of literacy in learners' lives, bringing in their families, social networks and jobs. Looking at the practicalities of how teachers and students... more...
Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 51.95Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge, discourses, and literacy practices... more...









