Research Catalog

Title

Beliefs about text and instruction with text / edited by Ruth Garner, Patricia A. Alexander.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Garner, Ruth.
• Alexander, Patricia A.

Description

xxii, 316 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Reading > Public opinion
• Reading, Psychology of
• Literacy > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Foreword: The Importance of Examining Beliefs About Text / Joanna P. Williams -- 1. Adolescent Beliefs About Oral and Written Language / Rosalind Horowitz -- 2. An Emerging Conceptualization of Epistemological Beliefs and Their Role in Learning / Marlene Schommer -- 3. Who Is This "I" Person, Anyway? The Presence of a Visible Author in Statistical Text / Susan Bobbitt Nolen, Nia Johnson-Crowley and Samuel S. Wineburg -- 4. Literacy Practices Outside of School: Adults' Beliefs and Their Responses to "Street Text" / Ruth Garner and Richard Hansis -- 5. Why Do Readers Fail to Change Their Beliefs After Reading Persuasive Text? / Marilyn J. Chambliss -- 6. Research Studies as Texts: Sites for Exploring the Beliefs and Learning of Researchers and Teachers / Penelope L. Peterson -- 7. Emerging Epistemologies of Text: Learning to Treat Texts as Human Creations in a "Writing Classroom" / Emily Hutton, Jan Spiesman and Vay Bott.
• 8. Relationship Between Teachers' Beliefs and Their Instructional Practice in Reading / Patricia L. Anders and Karen S. Evans -- 9. Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs About Summary as a Component of Reading / Hilda Borko, Kathryn H. Davinroy, Maurene D.Flory and Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- 10. Gender, Text, and Discussion: Expanding the Possibilities / Donna E. Alvermann and Michelle Commeyras -- 11. Do Teachcrs Consider Nonlinear Text to Be Text? / Mark G. Gillingham, Michael F. Young and Jonna M. Kulikowich -- 12. Adults' Views About Knowing and Believing / Patricia A. Alexander and Filip J. R. C. Dochy -- 13. Social Psychology Research on Beliefs and Attitudes: Implications for Research on Learning From Text / Janice A. Dole and Gale M. Sinatra -- 14. The Role of Belief Systems in Authors' and Readers' Constructions of Texts / Suzanne Wade, Audrey Thompson and William Watkins -- A Look to the Future: What We Might Learn From Research on Beliefs / Claire Ellen Weinstein.

ISBN

• 0805814264
• 0805814272 (pbk.)

LCCN

94000239

OCLC

• 29791876
• ocm29791876

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries