Date of Award
6-1994
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Educational Leadership, Research and Technology
First Advisor
Dr. Paul Farber
Second Advisor
Dr. Gunilla Holm
Third Advisor
Dr. Ron Crowell
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
This study analyzes Michigan's New Definition of Reading, its theoretical foundations and instructional implications as these enter classroom practice. Designed as a qualitative case study of reading instruction in a fifth grade classroom, this study documents the way that a teacher and her students approach and come to understand literacy under the bureaucratic and organizational imperatives of practice. The disempowering effects of such patterns of practice are described in relation to the purported aims of reading instruction.
Recommended Citation
Kaufman, Julie H., "Michigan's New Definition of Reading: The Promise of Literacy and the Paradox of Practice" (1994). Masters Theses. 3305.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/3305