Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:387530 L3 - citeulike-article-id:387530 N2 - {Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the plethora of objects which children constantly produce--drawings, cut-outs, writings and collages-- Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions-- actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and writing. <P><P>This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy and thought and action. It places these challenges within the context of speculation about the abilities which will become essential for children as young adults, and calls for the radical decentering of language in educational theory and practice.} SN - 0415138051 TI - Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy PB - Routledge KW - literacy KW - media_literacy KW - nml KW - writing AU - Kress, Gunther UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0415138051 ER -