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SUMMARY:Fonics\, phun and the reading wars at the Cambridge Festival of Id
 eas - Dominic Wyse\, Senior Lecturer in Primary and Early Years Education 
 and a member of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of
  Cambridge
DTSTART:20111025T170000Z
DTEND:20111025T181500Z
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CONTACT:Cambridge Festival of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Learning to read is a vital aspect of education hence argument
 s about teaching have been called 'the reading wars'. Dominic Wyse looks a
 t the best ways to teach reading and asks why the government has failed to
  recommend the best approaches. Historically a long-standing debate has be
 en about whether reading is best taught through bottom-up methods or top-d
 own methods. In fact neither of these approaches is fully supported by res
 earch.\n\nThis session will begin by showing a top-down approach through e
 ngagement with a ‘real’ picture book\, and a bottom-up approach by sho
 wing a popular commercial phonics scheme. The use of a real book will also
  encapsulate one of the ways that learning to read should be ‘fun’. An
  argument will be made that phonics teaching (direct teaching about letter
 s and their associated sounds) has been done in England at least since the
  late 19th century. The session will illustrate that there is a powerful b
 ody of research showing the most effective ways to teach reading\, and it 
 will seek to explain why politicians in England frequently distort practic
 e so that it does not reflect the evidence base for what works.\n\nDominic
  Wyse is a Senior Lecturer in Primary and Early Years Education and a memb
 er of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge
 . He is a Fellow and Director of Music-Making at Churchill College Cambrid
 ge. He was a primary teacher for eight years which included posts in Londo
 n\, Bradford and Huddersfield. Following his work as a teacher he lectured
  in Primary Education at Liverpool John Moores University for eight years\
 , latterly as a Reader.\n\nDominic’s research focuses on curriculum\, pe
 dagogy and policy. A major strand of this is his work on the teaching of E
 nglish\, language and literacy. He also works on creativity\, and educatio
 nal innovation. His current research includes a project funded by the Nati
 onal Gallery in London. Dominic gave evidence in relation to England’s N
 ational Curriculum to the House of Commons Committee for Children\, School
 s and Families\, and was consulted for the government review of the nation
 al curriculum in 2011. He has spoken about policy and pedagogy on BBC News
 night and BBC Radio 4 Today.\n\nDominic is editor (with Richard Andrews an
 d Jim Hoffman) of The Routledge International Handbook of English\, Langua
 ge and Literacy Teaching and editor of Literacy Teaching and Learning: a S
 AGE major work. The third edition of his influential book Teaching English
 \, Language and Literacy (with Russell Jones) is due in 2012. He is Associ
 ate Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Education.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, Mill Lane
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