Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts

This is the second volume of the handbook; the first, published in 1997, is cited in Resources for College Libraries. Featuring contributions by 99 leading literacy researchers from around the world, this text assembles state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy to include not only the traditional skills of reading,writing, speaking, and listening, but also the various ways through which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It offers academics, researchers, and educators insights into the role of the visual, communicative, and performative arts in literacy education; the technologies that have vastly expanded our meanings and uses of literacy; the extent to which these technologies originate and evolve through the skills and interests of the young; and the widespread recognition that teachers and students have become learners together. Lawrence Erlbaum is an imprint of Taylor & Francis. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)