21st Century Literacy If We Are Scripted, Are We Literate?
This book offers a call to all who are involved with literacy education. It explores the prescriptions that hinder authentic and effective approaches to literacy instruction. The scripts identified here include the Bureaucratic Script, the Corporate Script, the Student Script, the Parent and Public...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2009, 2009
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009 |
| Series: | Explorations of Educational Purpose
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Bureaucratic Script
- Standards, Standards Everywhere and Not a Spot to Think
- Rubrics, Scoring Guides, and Testing, Testing, Testing
- The Corporate Script
- Marketing Child Readers: Ranking and Sorting
- English as a Scripted Language
- The Student Script
- “When Are We Going To Do English?”
- How School Works: Raise Your Hands When You Want to Learn
- The Parent and Public Script
- “Why Don't You Mark the Errors on My Child's Papers?”—Explaining Yourself Theoretically and Professionally
- “Why Aren't You Teaching C. S. Lewis?”—Challenges and Expectations from Outside School
- The Administrative Script
- But Are They Ready To Do Best Practices?
- Building and Department Politics—Talking English
- Beyond Scripts to Literacy
- Literacy as Action—Empowering Students
- Assessing Our Way into Instruction: What Teachers Know and How They Know It