This book examines emergent literacy as the foundations for language instruction and seeks to relate the work of those doing research on literacy acquisition and those designing programs to facilitate children's literacy development. It bridges theory and practice, looking at both cognitive processes and settings in which children first experience literacy.
With contributions by leading researchers in the field, the book examines emergent literacy in nonliterate homes; oral language supports; parent-child reading; literacy and working class families; literacy from a developmental...
This book examines emergent literacy as the foundations for language instruction and seeks to relate the work of those doing research on literacy a...
Theorists of child development, for the most part, have taken white, middle class, Euro-American children as the norm. These "typical" children, however, are exposed to two major enculturating influences that are by no means common across cultures: formal schooling and parents who consciously attempt to serve as teachers at home. Providing an important contribution toward a more universal understanding of child development, this book concentrates on children of the Kpelle-speaking people of West Africa, who grow up neither spending thousands of hours in quiet study nor receiving a heavy dose...
Theorists of child development, for the most part, have taken white, middle class, Euro-American children as the norm. These "typical" children, howev...
This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning in childhood from the points of view of psychologists, sociologists, educators, and anthropologists.
This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning in childhood from the points of view ...
This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning in childhood from the points of view of psychologists, sociologists, educators, and anthropologists.
This first major anthropological reference book on childhood learning considers the cultural aspects of learning in childhood from the points of view ...
Two prominent themes receive particular emphasis: the processes involved in learning to work, and the interaction between ontogeny and children's roles as workers.
Two prominent themes receive particular emphasis: the processes involved in learning to work, and the interaction between ontogeny and children's role...
