Margaret Meek

Margaret Meek Spencer

The changes in our society in the patterns of behaviour, the varieties of culture and language, and the shifting emphasis on the roles of the sexes, have had a dramatic effect on what is going on in schools and classrooms everywhere. At the same time, parents, who have always been responsible for the early education of their children are now urged to take an active role in their schooling, they are inevitably confused by the unfamiliarity of the current school scence. At the heart of it all is their concern about literacy; children learning to read and write in a society which seems increasingly to be dominated by electronic media.

On Being Literate

How Texts Teach what Readers Learn

Victor Watson

Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic?" Margaret Meek is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education in London. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.

Margaret Meek Spencer

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