Victoria purcell gates biography
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Waterfall Purcell-Gates Explores the False of Agree to Literacy
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Victoria Purcell-Gates, University of British Columbia
Education, Language and LiteracyProfessor EmeritusVancouver, British l-gates@
RESEARCH INVOLVES
Examining early literacy development in both community and pre-school environments and looking for similarities and differences in socioculturally rooted literacy practices, texts, functions, and values.
RESEARCH RELEVANCE
The research is contributing
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RESEARCH INVOLVES
Examining early literacy development in both community and pre-school environments and looking for similarities and differences in socioculturally rooted literacy practices, texts, functions, and values.
RESEARCH RELEVANCE
The research is contributing to the development of culturally meaningful teaching methods to increase levels of literacy development of children from poor and marginalized communities.
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&#;Other People&#;s Words&#; brought back memories of being ashamed of my Southern accent
Book review by Angela Perez
Victoria Purcell-Gates &#; Other People’s Words
Purcell-Gates’ book, Other People’s Words, is an anthropological study of two subjects’ experience with the phenomenon of literacy in American culture. Exploring literacy as a cultural act, this ethnographic study espouses a sociocultural theory of learning in which all cognitive abilities are valued equally. For Purcell-Gates, emergent literacy is not just part of a school curriculum, it is a complex activity that allows young children to make sense of literacy instruction. Although Americans live in a print-rich society, our comprehension of the written word as a meaningful and useful code for communication is a cultural act that is not a given if there are print deficits in early home life.
The main subjects of the book are an illiterate mother, Jenny, and her young illiterate son, Donny. Both are described as poor, white, urban Appalachians. The book details how Purcell-Gates, as a university researcher and professor of literacy education, improved both subjects ability to read and write, but also to understand the value and purpose of literacy. The author goes to great pains to explain A