Daniel A Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 94015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel A Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2985-8444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Gini Learning Index
Language Issues in Comparative Education II
Early-grade reading support in rural South Africa
El aprendizaje en la base de la pirámide
Los objetivos para el desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas han asignado, de manera sostenida, una alta prioridad a la calidad educativa —y a la del aprendizaje. Esto ha llevado a avances sustanciales en ayuda para el desarrollo internacional hacia la educación, y también a una mayor atención, a nivel mundial, a la importancia del aprendizaje de los niños. Sin embargo, tales metas son principalmente normativas: tienden a representar promedios entre n…
Learning and literacy
The debate on learning assessments in developing countries
Intergenerational Literacy
It is commonly thought that parental literacy is a causal factor in children’s acquisition of reading and writing skills. There are, however, surprisingly few studies that consider the specific roles of parental literacy on children’s literacy acquisition. One reason is that the vast majority of literacy studies, conducted with middle-class children in American or European families, presents a restricted range of variation in family literacy. The…
What happened to literacy? Historical and conceptual perspectives on literacy in Unesco
The future of Unesco
Quality of education, comparability, and assessment choice in developing countries
Over the past decade, international development agencies have begun to emphasize the improvement of the quality (rather than simply quantity) of education in developing countries. This new focus has been paralleled by a significant increase in the use of educational assessments as a way to measure gains and losses in quality. As this interest in assessment has grown, low-income countries have begun to adopt and adapt international and other asses…
Contents, Vol. 24, 1981
Problems and Prospects in Comparative Studies of Memory
Several approaches to the study of human memory, including ontogenetic, cultural/sociohistorical, and clinical research, are reviewed and synthesized in the broad framework of comparative cognition. Similar trends in the acquisition and control of memory strategies as a function of age, schooling, and cultural experiences reveal the adaptive nature of memory development. The comparative approach illustrates how memory demands of the environment a…
Research-Policy Issues for Childhood Programs in the Third World
This article provides a review of a symposium at the 1982 AAAS meetings, the focus of which was the research-policy interface between child development issues and international development programs. The papers presented by the speakers who participated in the symposium are summarized and discussed. Specific topics covered are the socioeconomic determinants of infant mortality, the relationship between fertility and child development, the effects …
Adult Literacy
Literacy(ies), culture(s), and development(s)
Book reviewed in this article: Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border . Tomas Mario Kalmar. 2001. Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives . Edited by Brian Street. 2001. Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community . David Barton and Mary Hamilton. 1998. The Making of Literate Societies . Edited by David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance. 2001. Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Wr…
Adult Literacy
n 1993,_the first report from the federa!ly funded .National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the most comprehensive study of its kind, was released. The good news was that nearly 95% of adult Americans could read at a fourth-grade level or better, showing that illiteracy in its most basic form was relatively low, but the bad news was that nearly half of all adult Americans scored in the lowest two levels of literacy, levels that the National Educat…
Literacy and development
Literacy and economic development have existed as terms that are inextricably linked in the literature, often with little examination. As one looks more closely at the rationales for this relationship, it becomes clear that much more needs to be known about the functions and uses of literacy in everyday life, how literacy is linked to productive activity and how literacy is learned and taught across the life-span. In order to achieve both underst…
Literacy Among African-American Youth
Literacy Among African-American Youth: Issues in Learning, Teaching and Schooling, edited by Vivian L. Gadsden and Daniel A. Wagner. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995. 336 pp. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper. In this edited volume, Gadsden and Wagner have brought a coterie of minds to bear on a range of literacy issues confronting African American youth, their parents, schools, and communities. The result is a book that explores the linkages betwee…
Literacy, culture, and development
World Literacy
This article reviews research on literacy and makes some educated guesses about literacy research and policy in the current decade and beyond. Issues addressed include defining literacy, literacy acquisition, retention of literacy, and consequences of literacy. The article concludes with some suggestions on future literacy programs in the 1990s, the EFA decade
Functional Literacy in Moroccan School Children
Sur une population de 671 eleves marocains de l'enseignement moyen, les AA. examinent les problemes que pose l'influence du milieu social sur l'alphabetisation fonctionnelle de l'enfant accomplissant des devoirs a domicile, compte tenu de son profil personnel
Who's a Literate? Assessmen t Issues in a Global Perspective
Demographic and economic changes around the world and the linkage between literacy and development have made literacy a critical issue especially in the developing countries. But the uncertainty about the nature and extent of literacy has necessitated taking a new look at literacy assessment. Policy-makers have been hampered not only by too little data, but also by a failure to capture varying types and levels of literacy in each society. Dichoto…
The myth of literacy relapse
Child development research and the Third World
Child development research and the Third World
Literacy, culture, and development
Adult Literacy
n 1993,_the first report from the federa!ly funded .National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the most comprehensive study of its kind, was released. The good news was that nearly 95% of adult Americans could read at a fourth-grade level or better, showing that illiteracy in its most basic form was relatively low, but the bad news was that nearly half of all adult Americans scored in the lowest two levels of literacy, levels that the National Educat…
The myth of literacy relapse
Learning and literacy
Literacy and development
Literacy and economic development have existed as terms that are inextricably linked in the literature, often with little examination. As one looks more closely at the rationales for this relationship, it becomes clear that much more needs to be known about the functions and uses of literacy in everyday life, how literacy is linked to productive activity and how literacy is learned and taught across the life-span. In order to achieve both underst…
What happened to literacy? Historical and conceptual perspectives on literacy in Unesco
Quality of education, comparability, and assessment choice in developing countries
Over the past decade, international development agencies have begun to emphasize the improvement of the quality (rather than simply quantity) of education in developing countries. This new focus has been paralleled by a significant increase in the use of educational assessments as a way to measure gains and losses in quality. As this interest in assessment has grown, low-income countries have begun to adopt and adapt international and other asses…
Adult Literacy
Learning to read by 'rote
Information about traditional Islamic (or Quranic) education dates back to its inception over 1400 years ago in the Arabian Peninsula. During this millennium, Islamic religious schools have spread with Islam to more than 40 countries, spanning half the globe and teaching tens of millions of children (although exact statistics are still unavailable). Until recently, most research on Islamic schooling was historical, focused on philosophy, and was …
Early-grade reading support in rural South Africa
Literacy(ies), culture(s), and development(s)
Book reviewed in this article: Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border . Tomas Mario Kalmar. 2001. Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives . Edited by Brian Street. 2001. Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community . David Barton and Mary Hamilton. 1998. The Making of Literate Societies . Edited by David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance. 2001. Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Wr…
World Literacy
This article reviews research on literacy and makes some educated guesses about literacy research and policy in the current decade and beyond. Issues addressed include defining literacy, literacy acquisition, retention of literacy, and consequences of literacy. The article concludes with some suggestions on future literacy programs in the 1990s, the EFA decade
Functional Literacy in Moroccan School Children
Sur une population de 671 eleves marocains de l'enseignement moyen, les AA. examinent les problemes que pose l'influence du milieu social sur l'alphabetisation fonctionnelle de l'enfant accomplissant des devoirs a domicile, compte tenu de son profil personnel
The necessary and the sufficient in cross-cultural research
The necessary and the sufficient in cross-cultural research
B. McLaughlin, Second language acquisition in childhood. Hillsdale, N.J
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Linguistics
Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, The psychology of literacy. Cambridge, Mass
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Indigenous education and literacy in the third world
Indigenous school systems often feature literacy as a central focus, but such systems have generally been ignored by development planners
Sources of additional information
The editor of this sourcebook presents a brief bibliography for researchers interested in learning more about the connections between child development and international development
Learning to read by 'rote
Information about traditional Islamic (or Quranic) education dates back to its inception over 1400 years ago in the Arabian Peninsula. During this millennium, Islamic religious schools have spread with Islam to more than 40 countries, spanning half the globe and teaching tens of millions of children (although exact statistics are still unavailable). Until recently, most research on Islamic schooling was historical, focused on philosophy, and was …
Ethno-graphies
'Literacy is a remarkable term. While seeming to refer to simple individual possession of the complementary mental technologies of reading and writing, literacy is not only difficult to define in individuals and delimit within societies, but it is also charged with emotional and political meaning. It was not long ago that newspapers and scholars referred to whole societies as 'illiterate and uncivilized' as a single referent, and 'illiterate' is …
Child Development and International Development
Child development research and the Third World
Child development research and the Third World
The myth of literacy relapse
Who's a Literate? Assessmen t Issues in a Global Perspective
Demographic and economic changes around the world and the linkage between literacy and development have made literacy a critical issue especially in the developing countries. But the uncertainty about the nature and extent of literacy has necessitated taking a new look at literacy assessment. Policy-makers have been hampered not only by too little data, but also by a failure to capture varying types and levels of literacy in each society. Dichoto…
Functional Literacy in Moroccan School Children
Sur une population de 671 eleves marocains de l'enseignement moyen, les AA. examinent les problemes que pose l'influence du milieu social sur l'alphabetisation fonctionnelle de l'enfant accomplissant des devoirs a domicile, compte tenu de son profil personnel
World Literacy
This article reviews research on literacy and makes some educated guesses about literacy research and policy in the current decade and beyond. Issues addressed include defining literacy, literacy acquisition, retention of literacy, and consequences of literacy. The article concludes with some suggestions on future literacy programs in the 1990s, the EFA decade
Literacy, culture, and development
Literacy Among African-American Youth
Literacy Among African-American Youth: Issues in Learning, Teaching and Schooling, edited by Vivian L. Gadsden and Daniel A. Wagner. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995. 336 pp. $55.00, cloth; $22.95, paper. In this edited volume, Gadsden and Wagner have brought a coterie of minds to bear on a range of literacy issues confronting African American youth, their parents, schools, and communities. The result is a book that explores the linkages betwee…
Literacy and development
Literacy and economic development have existed as terms that are inextricably linked in the literature, often with little examination. As one looks more closely at the rationales for this relationship, it becomes clear that much more needs to be known about the functions and uses of literacy in everyday life, how literacy is linked to productive activity and how literacy is learned and taught across the life-span. In order to achieve both underst…
Adult Literacy
n 1993,_the first report from the federa!ly funded .National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the most comprehensive study of its kind, was released. The good news was that nearly 95% of adult Americans could read at a fourth-grade level or better, showing that illiteracy in its most basic form was relatively low, but the bad news was that nearly half of all adult Americans scored in the lowest two levels of literacy, levels that the National Educat…
Literacy(ies), culture(s), and development(s)
Book reviewed in this article: Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy: Latino Migrants Crossing the Linguistic Border . Tomas Mario Kalmar. 2001. Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives . Edited by Brian Street. 2001. Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community . David Barton and Mary Hamilton. 1998. The Making of Literate Societies . Edited by David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance. 2001. Multilingual Literacies: Reading and Wr…
Adult Literacy
Contents, Vol. 24, 1981
Problems and Prospects in Comparative Studies of Memory
Several approaches to the study of human memory, including ontogenetic, cultural/sociohistorical, and clinical research, are reviewed and synthesized in the broad framework of comparative cognition. Similar trends in the acquisition and control of memory strategies as a function of age, schooling, and cultural experiences reveal the adaptive nature of memory development. The comparative approach illustrates how memory demands of the environment a…
Research-Policy Issues for Childhood Programs in the Third World
This article provides a review of a symposium at the 1982 AAAS meetings, the focus of which was the research-policy interface between child development issues and international development programs. The papers presented by the speakers who participated in the symposium are summarized and discussed. Specific topics covered are the socioeconomic determinants of infant mortality, the relationship between fertility and child development, the effects …
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Pedagogy (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Literacy (14 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Education Systems and Policy (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works)