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Literacy Lexicon Paperback – 30 October 2002

by Michele Anstey (Author), Geoff Bull (Author)

Edition: 2^nd

Australian text for literacy and language education

The Literacy Lexicon, is an invaluable Australian text for literacy and language education for students in the upper levels of education programs. It also has high relevance for practising teachers for their professional development.

Continuing the tradition of the first edition, this book explores current issues in the field through specialist essays with a respected team of contributors. It explores both new and established theories, definitions and applications of literacy education within the current educational environment. Covering reflection, pedagogy, discourse and social constructs, The Literacy Lexicon critically examines recent trends in language and literacy education and provides practical methods of applying this new knowledge.

The Literacy Lexicon is designed for optimal use in partnership with its companion volume, The Literacy Labyrinth.

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About the Author

Dr Michèle Anstey (Dip. T., B.Ed., M.Ed. (Hons), PhD.) was Director of and Principal Adviser to the Literate Futures Project for Education Queensland. She was the author of Literate Futures: Reading (2002) and the handbook, Professional Development: The Teaching of Reading for a Multiliterate World (2004), published by Education Queensland. She was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland for 17 years and prior to that a teacher in Victoria, NSW and Qld. She is now an educational consultant running: ABC: Anstey and Bull Consultants in Education with her husband, Geoff Bull. One of her major interests is in literacy teaching practices and reading and she has applied her research in a range of long term consultancies with primary and secondary schools throughout Queensland and Australia. She is particularly interested in the literacy practices of isolated rural communities and the implications of these for developing an appropriate literacy curriculum for the schools in these communities. A former editor of the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy together with Geoff Bull she has published The Literacy Lexicon (edited) 2nd Edition Pearson, Sydney 2003, The Literacy Labyrinth 2nd Edition Pearson Sydney 2004, Reading the Visual: written and illustrated children's literature Harcourt/Nelson, Sydney 2000, Crossing the Boundaries (edited) Pearson, Sydney 2002 and The Literacy Landscape Pearson 2004.

Dr Geoff Bull (K.P.T.C., B.Ed.St., Litt.B., M.Litt., M.Ed., PhD.) was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland for 26 years and prior to this was a teacher and teacher-librarian in various schools around Queensland. Geoff is a former national president of the Australian Literacy Educators Association and founding member of the Australian Literacy Federation (ALF). He has been involved in extensive consultancies with schools and is particularly interested in community literacies. He also has an interest in speculative fiction and postmodern trends in children's literature. He has written for the Literate Futures Project for Education Queensland and has been extensively involved with professional development around the Literate Futures Project throughout Queensland, particularly with the learning Development Centres: Literacy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 2 edition (30 October 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 316 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1740098315
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1740098311
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.3 x 1.8 x 24.6 cm

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