Reading Across International Boundaries: History, Policy and Politics (Paperback)

Foreword, Gary McCulloch. Introduction, Roger Openshaw and Janet Soler.; PART I. NATIONAL POLICY INITIATIVES. What Can the International Literary Community Learn from the New Zealand Experience with Reading? Roger Openshaw. What's Wrong with New Zealand's Literacy Strategy? William E. Tunmer, Jane E. Prochnow, Keith T. Greane,y and James W. Chapman. The Rose Report: One Step Further in a Managerialist Approach to the Literacy Curriculum in England? Janet Soler. Literacy Policy and Policy Literacy: A Tale of Phonics in Early Reading in England, Kathy Hall.; PART II. PROFESSIONAL CONTEXTS. Curriculum Leadership and the Current Politics of U.S. Literacy Education, Rose M. Ylimaki and Leslie McClain. Constituting the Teacher of Reading in Contemporary Australian Literacy Debates, Barbara Comber and Phil Cormack. Literacy Debate in the Early Years: The New Zealand Context, Joy Cullen.; PART III. WIDER IMPLICATIONS. The Digital Page: Crossing Boundaries of Print in California Social Studies, James A. LaSpina. Critical Asia Literacy: Othering, Orientalism, and Counterhegemonic Challenges, Yoshiko Nozaki. Mind the Gap: Continuities and Discontinuities in Young Children's Textual Experiences at Home and School, Jackie Marsh.