Tales of literacy for the 21st century / Maryanne Wolf 2016.
Series: The literary agendaPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.Description: vi, 200 pISBN:- 9780198724179
- Tales of literacy for the twenty-first century
- 302.2244 Q6
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.
Introduction -- A linguist's tale -- A child's tale -- A neuroscientist's tale of words -- The deep reading brain -- A second revolution in the brain -- A tale of hope for non-literate children -- Epilogue.
Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century wrestles with critical, timely questions for twenty-first century society. How does literacy change the human brain? What does it mean to be a literate or a non-literate person? In the present digital culture what will be lost in the present reading brain, and what will be gained with different mediums than print? By both using research from cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, child development, and education, and considering literacy examples from world literature, Maryanne Wolf plots a course that seeks to preserve the deepest forms of reading from the past, while developing the cognitive skills necessary for this century's next generation around the world.
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