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Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?: Why Expertise Matters(English)

Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?: Why Expertise Matters(English)

          
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Accountability, in the form of standardized test scores, is built into many government literacy policies, with severe consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet ever-increasing performance levels. The key question this book addresses is whose knowledge is considered in framing government literacy policies? The intent is to raise awareness of the degree to which expertise is being ignored on a worldwide level and pseudo-science is becoming the basis for literacy policies and laws. The authors, all leading researchers from the U.S., U.K., Scotland, France, and Germany, have a wide range of views but share in common a deep concern about the lack of respect for knowledge among policy makers. Each author comes to the common subject of this volume from the vantage point of his or her major interests, ranging from an exposition of what should be the best knowledge utilized in an aspect of literacy education policy, to how political decisions are impacting literacy policy, to laying out the history of events in their own country. Collectively they offer a critical analysis of the condition of literacy education past and present and suggest alternative courses of action for the future.

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CONTENTS Foreword: Joel Spring Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: Knowledge, Evidence, and Faith: How the Federal Government Used Science to Take Over Public Schools, Robert Calfee Part 1: The Political Realties Chapter 2: Whose Knowledge Counts? The Pedagogy of the Absurd, Kenneth S. Goodman Chapter 3: Re-reading Poverty; Reorienting Educational Policy, Patrick Shannon Chapter 4: Neoliberal and Neoconservative Literacy Education Policies in Contemporary France, Jacques Fijalkow Chapter 5: Flying Blind: Government Policy on the Teaching of Reading in England and Research on Effective Literacy Education, Henrietta Dombey Chapter 6: Whose Knowledge Counts, For Whom, In What Circumstances?: The Ethical Constraints on Who Decides, Sue Ellis Chapter 7: About the Dubious Role of Phonological Awareness in the Discussion of Literacy Policies, Renate Valtin Part 2: Aspects of Literacy: The Knowledge Base Chapter 8: The Role of Story and Literature in a World of Tests and Standards, Kathy G. Short Chapter 9: The Staircase Curriculum: Whole-School Collaboration to Improve Literacy Achievement, Kathryn H. Au and Taffy E. Raphael Chapter 10: Diversity in Children's Literature: What Does It Matter in Today's Educational Climate? Rudine Sims Bishop Chapter 11: Examining Three Assumptions about Text Complexity: Standard 10 of the Common Core State Standards, Elfrieda H. Hiebert and Katie Van Sluys Chapter 12: The Role of Literature and Literary Reasoning in English Language Arts and English Classrooms, Judith A. Langer Chapter 13: Writing Teachers: The Roles Exploration, Evaluation, and Time Play in Their Lives, Jane Hansen Chapter 14: What Do Children Need to Succeed in Early Literacy—And Beyond? William H. Teale, Jessica L. Hoffman, and Kathleen A. Paciga Chapter 15: The Impact of Changing Conceptions of Language on Curriculum and Instruction of Literacy and the Language Arts, David Bloome and Melissa Wilson, Comments: Nu!.... So!... Where do We Go from Here? Yetta M. Goodman List of Contributors


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415858014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 326 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0415858011
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 217
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Why Expertise Matters
  • Width: 152 mm


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