Issues in Contemporary Teaching: Literacy

" ... Examines issues that inform the changing nature of teacher work, including: teacher capabilities for the information age ; the changing nature of school curriculms ; the global education environment ; the neurosciences and the diverse range of student needs in today's classrooms"--Back cover of v. 1.

4) Writing as genre: where the emphasis honed in on the systematic and explicit
instruction about genres or types of writing. ... When the teaching of phonics or a
phonics based writing/literacy program comes at the expense of developing ...