Reading at a Crossroads?: Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices

By: Penny Thompson and Rand J. Spiro and Michael DeSchryver and Michelle Schira Hagerman and Paul M. Morsink

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Synopsis: The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same reading skills and processes developed through experience with traditional print-based media? Are the changes in reading processes a matter of degree, or are they fundamentally new? And if so, how must reading theory, research, and instruction adjust? This volume brings together distinguished experts from the fields of reading research, teacher education, educational psychology, cognitive science, rhetoric and composition, digital humanities, and educational technology to address these questions. Every question is not answered in every chapter. How could they be? But every contributor has many thoughtful things to say about a subset of these important questions. Together, they add up to a comprehensive response to the issues the field faces as it approaches what may well be—or not —a crossroads. A website devoted to extending discussion around the book in creative (and disjunctive) ways [readingatacrossroads.net] moves it beyond the printed page.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 184 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781136741104
Related ISBNs:: 9780203819142, 9780415891684, 9780415891684, 9780415891691, 9780415891691, 9780415891684, 9780415891691, 9780203819142
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/10/19
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Education, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Rand J. Spiro
Edited by:: Michael DeSchryver
Edited by:: Michelle Schira Hagerman
Edited by:: Paul M. Morsink
Edited by:: Penny Thompson