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    Edited by Rosalind Horowitz ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies
    This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldwide and brings them together into a common intellectual space. This is the first such international compilation.Now in its second edition, the Handbook inaugurates a wide scope of international research advancement, with attention to writing at all ... Read more

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  • The Achievement Gap in Reading

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    In this volume prominent scholars, experts in their respective fields and highly skilled in the research they conduct, address educational and reading research from varied perspectives and address what it will take to close the achievement gap—with specific attention to reading. The achievement gap is redefined as a level at which all groups can compete economically in our society and have the ... Read more

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    This volume examines how oral and written language function in school learning , and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts that are used on a daily basis in schools. Rather than argue for the prominence of one over the other, the goal is to help the reader gain a rich understanding of how both might work together to create a new discourse that ultimately creates ... Read more

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  • Adaptivity as a Transformative Disposition

    for Learning in the 21st Century

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    This volume introduces the concept of ‘adaptivity’ as occurring when, say, individuals cross boundaries. Through illustrations from both formal and informal learning, the book seeks to provide learning designs and frameworks for adaptivity. This book is unique as it ties together: a) social-individual dialectics; and b) adaptive learning as it relates to creativity and imagination. It highlights ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Orthography and Literacy

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