Transforming literacy changing lives through reading and writing /

• Other Authors: Waxler, Robert P., 1944-, Hall, Maureen P.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
• Series: Innovation and leadership in English language teaching ; v. 3.
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study > English as a Second Language.; ELT: teaching theory & methods.; ELT resource books for teachers.; English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.

The book is interdisciplinary in focus and centers on enlarging teachers understanding of how reading and writing can change lives and how the language arts can contribute significantly to and change educational processes in the twenty-first century. Implicit in its argument is that although the emp...

Table of Contents:

• ch. 1. The reading and writing classroom as the new neighborhood / Robert P. Waxler, Maureen P. Hall
• ch. 2. Deep reading and the space of the classroom / Robert P. Waxler, Maureen P. Hall
• ch. 3. The classroom adventure : to learn and to understand / Robert P. Waxler, Maureen P. Hall
• ch. 4. Literacy, focused attention, and contemplative practice / Robert P. Waxler, Maureen P. Hall
• ch. 5. Language and the arts / Robert P. Waxler, Maureen P. Hall
• ch. 6. The challenge of new technologies / Robert P. Waxler, Maureen P. Hall.