Exchanging Writing, Exchanging Cultures: Lessons in School Reform from the United States and Great Britain - Softcover

Freedman, Sarah Warshauer

 
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Synopsis

What can teachers in British and American inner-city schools learn from each other about literacy training? To explore this question, Sarah Warshauer Freedman and her British colleagues set up a writing exchange that matched classes from four middle and high schools in the San Francisco Bay area with their London equivalents. Exchanging Writing, Exchanging Cultures offers concrete lessons to school reformers, policymakers, and classroom teachers about the value and effectiveness of different approaches to teaching writing. Freedman goes beyond the specific subject matter of this study, looking anew at Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's theories of social interaction and addressing the larger questions of the relationship between culture and education.

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About the Author

Sarah Warshauer Freedman is Professor of Education and the Study of Writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

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9780674273931: Exchanging Writings, Exchanging Cultures – Lessons in School Reform from the United States & Great Britain: Lessons in School Reform from the United States and Great Britain

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ISBN 10:  0674273931 ISBN 13:  9780674273931
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1995
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