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ERIC Number: EJ522379
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-6543
Expanding the Constructivist Metaphor: A Rhetorical Perspective on Literacy Research and Practice.
Greene, Stuart; Ackerman, John M.
Review of Educational Research, v65 n4 p383-420 Win 1995
As part of an argument for social and textual views of literacy, this review summarizes some of the accomplishments and shortcomings of constructivist accounts of reading and writing activity. A rhetorical perspective calls attention to the way language use crystallizes relations between readers and writers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Literacy, Metaphors, Reading, Rhetoric, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Reader Writer Relationship