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Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-1143-0
Paperback
264 pages
January 2007, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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"David Barton is a major player in the rapidly expanding field of
literacy studies. In the first edition of Literacy, he
brought to the attention of new audiences the research and
approaches to literacy signalled by terms such as 'social
practice', 'ethnographic', 'situated', and 'embedded' literacies.
His own 'ecological' approach provides a coherent and insightful
way of bringing together such understandings across many fields.
This book will be an invaluable companion to all of those
interested in literacy - policy makers, teachers, academics, and
journalists - and it will continue to challenge many of the
dominant stereotypes with which they otherwise have to work."
Brian V. Street, King's College London
"I have profited in my own thinking about literacy from this book... It is a marvellous achievement." Michael Cole, University of Californina, San Diego (of the previous edition)