...Elizabeth L. Jaeger Background/Aims: Urie Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems model is well regarded in the field of child development. Although this model is not commonly used by literacy researchers, I argue that Bronfenbrenner's emphasis on the roles of personal characteristics, proximal...

...Daniel A. Wagner; Jennifer E. Spratt It is commonly thought that parental literacy is a causal factor in children’s acquisition of reading and writing skills. There are, however, surprisingly few studies that consider the specific roles of parental literacy on children’s literacy acquisition. One...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Activity Cultural context Development Literacy Mediation Primitive...

... studies of conservation, have posed enormous difficulties for the use of this criterion. The present article attempts to clarify matters by analysing the concept of logical necessity as a cultural construction. It is argued that the advent of literacy has been historically associated with a fragmentation...

.... The Drive against Illiteracy of the 1930s may be seen, in view of research studies of different types of literacy, as a campaign aimed at practical literacy at a pseudoconceptual level, not at a metalinguistic awareness requiring genuine concepts. 24 12 2009 © 1987 S. Karger AG, Basel 1987...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Abacus Kanji Literacy Numeracy Psychological tools Paper Human Development 2007;50:73 80 DOI: 10.1159/000097687...

...Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe; Wendy Akua Addae; Candace Bell This paper evaluates the role that formal schooling has played in the lives of girls and women in 20th century developing and developed nations. Studies of the literacy rates of girls and women around the world are considered together...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Cultural-historical research Literacy School cultures Schooling and human development Paper Human Development 1999;42:113 128 Recovering History in the Study of Schooling: From the Longue Durée to Everyday Co-Construction1 Elsie...