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    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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