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The Cultural Practices of Literacy
| What | Seminar |
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| When |
2007-02-05 from 16:30 to 18:30 |
| Where | EDB 7610 - SFU Burnaby |
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2007-04-24 15:07
Speaker: Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates, Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood Literacy (UBC)
About Victoria:
Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates is interested in the ways in which people in communities value and practice literacy in all aspects of their lives. This includes texts, written symbol systems, purposes for reading and writing, attitudes and beliefs. She will consider designing early literacy instruction that builds on young children's linguistic, cognitive, cultural, and social models for reading and writing that they acquired within their home communities. She is a past winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award and is one of the best known researchers in the world in her field.