Greenfield 1991

Greenfield, Patricia Marks. 1991. "Review of 'The psychology of literacy' by Scribner and Cole 1981." In Minami and Kennedy 1991. (Review by Greenfield 1983.) Interest level: academic.

Refers to other field research and applauds significance of the research. Comments from review: "The one effect that did emerge ... was the positive impact of schooling on the general skill of verbal explanation." Ascribes importance to "teacher-pupil dialogue in the classroom. Teachers ask questions very much like those we asked: 'What made you give that answer? How do you know? Go to the board and explain what you did'." Emphasizes the development of cognitive skills depends on how literacy is used and the practices and functions in which it is enmeshed.

• Bibliography module: Greenfield 1991
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): G
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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