Bøger udgivet af VDM Verlag

The poor performance of pupils in reading comprehension tasks has caught the attention of all stakeholders in the education industry in recent times. Efforts at tackling this problem have often always focused on linguistic, psychological and sociological factors, neglecting pedagogical factors. While schools may not be able to do much to change a child''s socio-linguistic background for instance, much could be achieved by altering the methodologies of teaching. The findings reported in this book are geared towards upgrading the quality of reading instruction at the primary and secondary levels. The Direct-Reading-Thinking-Activity-Approach discussed in this book, is aimed at encouraging pupils to make use of their natural abilities to make and confirm predictions as they read. Teachers, teachers-in-training, curriculum planners, policy makers, parents and the society in general will find this book useful in improving reading comprehension pedagogy.

Speaking Through the Multitude: Composition 1, 2 '' 3 & 4 ... is a polyphonic composition of written words, musical notes and artworks. The live combination of which, results in ''unforeseeable sentences'', which run like ''glisses'' across the surface of the page, challenging the notion of a master narrative. The proposed repositioning of collective practice as performative Events, opens a ''space of appearance'' for protest, jazz, improvisation and movement, all of which sets a decentring dynamic in motion, providing singing side-steps to that which sovereignty stamps. This collaboratively orchestrated work drums the beat to a new ''common'' saturating colour and further possibility to a crowd of artists, performers, writers, musicians, curators, academics, theorists - and the ever-expanding ''multitude'', dot, dot, dot.