Being Skilled: The Socializations of Learning to Read

ISBN-13: 9781138090729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 286 str.

Stuart McNaughton

Opis

Originally published in 1987, Being Skilled presents a new model of how children learn to read, and in particular those who learn quickly and precociously. Bringing together ideas from such diverse sources as cognitive and developmental psychology and behaviour analysis perspectives on learning, Stuart McNaughton has produced a more complete theory based on a study of homes and classrooms, and the characteristics of reading behaviour in these settings. Within this theory reading is seen as a symbolic skill with structural properties that partly determine development; but it is also a social practice, in which learning is achieved through problem-solving and the performing of tasks set by particular environments. Drawing on extensive research carried out in Britain, North America and Australasia, McNaughton examines how interactions between teacher and child direct the task of learning to read, and how the relationship between home and school can be a well-matched or a poorly-matched setting in which learning may occur. Being Skilled will appeal to advanced students, researchers and theorists in education and development psychology and to anyone interested in the learning of complex skills.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Introduction: Another Account of Learning to Read?  Part 1: An Orchestrated Performance: Reading as a Skill  1. Strategies and Feedback  2. Intending and Knowing  Part 2: The Acts of Learning  3. Being Perturbed: Learning from Problems  4. Overcoming the General Problem: Practice Making Perfect  5. Dominance During Instruction  Part 3: Learning to be Skilled  6. The Conditions of Learning  7. Making Interactions Work: Setting Events for Learning  8. Knowing from a ‘No’: The Case for Error Feedback  9. Praise, Conversation and Putting It All Together  Part 4: Socializations  10. The Early Socializations of Learning to Read  11. The Transition: From Home to School  12. Being Schooled  13. Becoming a Skilled Reader.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Stuart McNaughton