From Small Places : Toward the Realization of Literacy as a Human RightToward the Realization of Literacy as a Human Right / / by Jo Anne Wilson-Keenan.

• VerfasserIn: Wilson-Keenan, Jo Anne.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

From Small Places: Toward the Realization of Literacy as a Human Right brings together history, theory, research, and practices that can lead to the realization of this right, both in itself, and as a means of achieving other rights. The premise of this book is that this right begins early in life w...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Why a Human Rights Perspective? / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Reviewing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Literacy Becomes Acknowledged as a Human Right / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• The Legacy of the Banking Model of Education / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Pathologizing the Language of Young Children / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Critical Pedagogy: Taking Concerted Action / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Learning about the Brain / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Talk: The Great Brain Booster / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• The Development of Written Language / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Reading: Making Sense of the World of Print / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Portraits of Learners in Small Places / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Building on the Strengths of Families and Communities / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Technology in Everyone’s Hands / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Toward the Realization of Literacy as a Human Right / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Appendices / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Bibliography / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
• Index / Ed.D. Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan.