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Winter 1987 Issue »
Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education
Kieran Egan
The richness of oral forms of expression used in non-literate societies from ancient times to the present is traced. Such a study may offer a better understanding of the cognitive tasks children perform during pre-literacy.
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Winter 1987 Issue
Abstracts
Beyond Special Education
Toward a Quality System for All Students
Alan Gartner and Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky
The Value of "Time Off Task"
Young Children's Spontaneous Talk and Deliberate Text
Anne Haas Dyson
An Analysis of Multicultural Education in the United States
Christine E. Sleeter and Carl A. Grant
Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education
Kieran Egan
Sounding an Alarm
A Reply to Sockett
Lee S. Shulman
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