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Styles, Morag – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
In the last twenty years, the teaching of reading in Britain has moved away from an interest in how children take delight in, and make meaning of, their literature to a preoccupation with a mechanistic approach to literacy which breaks down texts into bite-sized chunks and fragments reading into a series of isolated skills. Although an expensive,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature
Cohen, Jeremy; And Others – 1988
A study of reader response to newspaper articles in a defamatory context tested: (1) the judicial assumption that the macro-environment in which statements appear is important to a reader's distinguishing between fact and opinion; (2) the possibility that a byline may influence a reader's characterization of statements; and (3) the idea that…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Editorials, Freedom of Speech