The Difficulty of Reading. Report Series 4.4 [electronic resource] / Helen Elam.

American education has long equated reading with the narrower notion of literacy. Such an approach bypasses the concept of "difficulty," or the placing of ideas into question. The educational system has resisted adoption of a broader view of reading, because: (1) anything difficult is view...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Elam, Helen
Corporate Author:	State University of New York at Albany. Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990.
Subjects:	Cognitive Psychology. Critical Reading. Critical Theory. Difficulty Level. Educational Theories. Elementary Secondary Education. Epistemology. Higher Education. Literacy. Poetry.