Constructing Knowledge Together: Classrooms as Centres of Inquiry and Literacy (Heinemann/Cassell Language & Literacy S.) - Softcover

Wells, Gordon; Chang-Wells, Gen Ling; Ling Chang-Wells

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435087312 ISBN 13: 9780435087319

Publisher: Heinemann, 1992

Synopsis

In schools where many children are learning English as a second language, what should be the goals for literacy learning? How can teachers ensure all children can achieve them? This book results from a study in four inner-city multi-ethnic schools. The authors show how children used literacy skills as both communication and learning tools, and set the discoveries in a wide theoretical framework. The book includes case histories of innovative classroom practices and should be of use to those on pre- and in-service teaching courses, as well as for practising teachers.

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About the Author

GEN LING CHANG-WELLS is a researcher and teacher. As a researcher, she has worked in two major educational research projects in Canada, in which one of her responsibilities was to help teachers define and examine their classroom inquiries. As a teacher, she has worked at university, secondary, and elementary levels. At present she is with the Toronto Board of Education, teaching a multilingual third and fourth grade class in an inner city school.GORDON WELLS is a Professor of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto. He teaches and researches in the fields of language, literacy and learning in the Department of Curriculum and in the Joint Centre for Teacher Development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0435087312
• ISBN 13: 9780435087319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192