Full Description
In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with particular attention to what they consider the central goal of literacy—making meaning. Each section describes a specific epoch, including a brief snapshot of how the reader of that period is envisioned and characterized by researchers and teachers, as well as a deep discussion of the ideas and contextual events of that era. These developmental waves are organized in rough historical sequence by a series of shifts in underlying theoretical and scholarly lenses—from the behavioral to the psycholinguistic to the cognitive to the sociocultural to the critical to the multimodal to the global. The book closes with a discussion of the various research frames and methodological approaches that paralleled these developments. Throughout, there is a profound recognition that all research and practice are ultimately directed toward how students make meaning, from sound to letter to word, to ideas and images.Book Features:
Animates some of the revolutionary developments related to reading education and literacy in modern times.
Each development is accompanied by a discussion of the aspirational reader that sets the stage for contemplating these shifts and their significance.
Traces the research and theoretical developments to illustrate the origins of the shifts and their influences.
Supported by a website with video lectures and conversations tied to the various waves of development.
Contents
Introduction: An Overview
Part I: Looking back
1. Beginning Traces: Early Science and Cultural Concerns
Enculturated Reader
Foundational Years of Reading
2. Early Method
Assembled Reader
Search for Best Method
Part II: Waves of development
3. The Cognitive Wave
Constructivist Reader
The Cognitive Turn
4. The Learning to Learn Wave
Strategic Reader
Learning to Learn
5. The Reading-Writing Wave
Writerly Reader
Reading-Writing Relationships
6. The Social Wave
Social Readers
Social Wave
7. The Critical Wave
Critical Advocate
Critical Literacies
8. The Assessment Wave Wave
Self-Assessor Reader
Wave of New Assessment Paradigms
9. The Reform Wave
Regulated Reader
The Era of Reform
10. The Digital Wave
Digital Reader
Digital Wave
11. The Global Wave
Global Meaning Maker
Globalization
Part III: Ebb, Flow, and Overlap
12. Research Currents
History Unaccounted: A Personal Retrospective on Waves of Development
Index
About the Authors
