Multiple Perspectives on Difficulties in Learning Literacy and Numeracy [Paperback]

There are many approaches to researching the difficulties in learning that students experience in the key areas of literacy and numeracy. This book seeks to advance understanding of these difficulties and the interventions that have been used to improve outcomes. The book addresses the sometimes complementary and sometimes contradictory results, and generates new approaches to understanding and serving students with difficulties in literacy and numeracy. The book represents a departure from conventional wisdom as most scholars and graduate students draw upon ideas from only one of the three domains focal in the book and usually from one single or dominant theoretical frame. Typically, readers will affiliate with reading education, mathematics education, or learning disabilities and belong to one of the corresponding professional associations such as IRA, NCTM, or CLD. This books scope will open a scholarly forum for engaging readers with a familiarity with one of these domains while providing insight into the others on offer in the book.

There are many approaches to researching the difficulties in learning that students experience in the areas of literacy and numeracy. This book explores those difficulties and the interventions used to improve outcomes.

ContentsAcknowledgementsAbout the contributorsList of figuresList of tablesChapter 1Theoretical frameworks and ways of seeing: Operating at the intersectionliteracy, numeracy and learning difficultiesClaire Wyatt-Smith & John Elkins, Griffith University, AustraliaChapter 2Learning difficulties, literacy and numeracy: Conversations across the fieldsStephanie Gunn & Claire Wyatt-Smith, Griffith University, AustraliaChapter 3Researching the opportunities for learning for students with learning difficulties in classrooms: An ethnographic perspectiveJudith Green & Beth Yeager, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, & Maria Lucia Castanheira, Federal University of Minas Gl3Q