Notebooks
Literacy, Reading, Writing
23 Oct 2022 14:51
Dis-recommended:
- Anything by Marshall McLuhan
To read:
- Marilyn Jager Adams, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print
- Deborah Brandt, The Rise of Writing: Redefining Mass Literacy
- Jenny Cook-Gumperz (ed.), The Social
Construction of Literacy
- Stanislas Dehane, Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention
- Andrea diSessa, Changing Minds: Computers, Literacy and
Learning
- James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About
Learning and Literacy
- Jack Goody
- The Logic of Writing and the Organization of
Society
- Power of the Written Tradition
- Joyce Marcus, Mesoamerican Writing Systems:
Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations
- Anna Missiou, Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens
- James J. O'Donnell, Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to
Cyberspace
- David R. Olson, The World on Paper: The Conceptual and
Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading
- Victoria Purcell-Gates, Erik Jacobson and Sophie Degener, Print Literacy Development: Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories [The idea that there is a conflict between seeing something as a cognitive skill and as a social practice seems to me utterly absurd --- how else are social
practices to be implemented? But I realize not everyone encountered my
gurus (Herbert Simon, Dan Sperber) at an impressionable age..]
- Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, The Psychology of Literacy
- Deborah Tarn Steiner, The Tyrant's Writ:
Myths and Images of Writing in Ancient Greece
- David Vincent, The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and
Writing in Modern Europe
