"Coming, Ready or Not!" [electronic resource] : Changing What Counts as Early Literacy / Barbara Comber.

This paper contends that, historically and today, "readiness" functions as a key symbol in discourses of early childhood. Schools and teachers need to make "ready" for different children in a very different world than that in which many people grew up. The interest in the paper,...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Comber, Barbara
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998.
Subjects:	Classroom Observation Techniques. Disadvantaged Youth. Diversity (Student) Emergent Literacy. Learning Readiness. Naturalistic Observation. Preschool Education. School Readiness.