Understanding Difficulties in Literacy

Based on current research, debates and concerns, Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts adopts a cross disciplinary approach to understanding and working with those who experience difficulties with literacy. It provides a broad view of difficulties in literacy and related educational and curriculum learning issues across a range of ages, phases and settings.

What is Literacy? What are 'difficulties in Literacy'?
Literacy: In search of a paradigm
Globalisation, literacy and society: Redesigning pedagogy and assessment
The historical construction of dylsexia: Implications for Higher Education
Issues and Concepts in Public Reading Debates
Literacy as a complex activity: Deconstructing the simple view of reading
The irrelevancy - and danger - of the 'simple view' of reading to meaningful standards
Ehri's model of phases of learning to read: A brief critique
Siblings bridging literacies in multilingual contexts
Boys' underachievement: Issues, challenges and possible ways forward
Re-counting 'Illiteracy': Literacy skills in the sociology of social inequality
Literacy Curriculum Policy Contexts
Research and the National Literacy Strategy
Literacy policy and policy literacy: A tale of phonics in early reading in England
'To be or not to be?': The politics of teaching phonics in England and New Zealand
Powerful literacies: The policy context
Community, Family, Society and Individual Identity
The self-concept and its relationship to educational achievement
The self-concept and dyslexia
Social Justice, Equity Issues and Learning Disabilities
Special education's changing identity: Paradoxes and dilemmas in views of culture and space
The cultural work of learning disabilities
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Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development : Issues and Concepts

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