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Proust and the Squid

Autor Maryanne Wolf
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2008

Autoarea Maryanne Wolf, profesor de dezvoltare a copilului la Universitatea Tufts și director al Centrului pentru Cercetare în Lectură și Limbă, propune în Proust and the Squid o incursiune fascinantă în neuroplasticitatea creierului uman. Lucrarea se fundamentează pe decenii de cercetare clinică și teoretică, explorând modul în care un organ care nu a fost programat genetic pentru lectură a reușit să „recicleze” circuite neuronale vechi pentru a descifra simboluri scrise.

Descoperim aici o perspectivă duală: una istorică, ce urmărește evoluția de la tăblițele de lut sumeriene la ecranele digitale, și una ontogenetică, axată pe procesul prin care un copil învață să citească. Wolf explică cu rigoare științifică, dar și prin anecdote personale, cum această achiziție culturală a transformat radical modul în care gândim și simțim. Remarcăm o atenție deosebită acordată dislexiei, autoarea oferind explicații neurologice pentru dificultățile de învățare, privindu-le nu ca pe un deficit, ci ca pe o dovadă a arhitecturii unice a creierului.

Cititorii familiarizați cu Reading in the Brain de Stanislas Dehaene vor aprecia modul în care Maryanne Wolf umanizează datele neuroștiințifice, integrând referințe literare și observații despre impactul tehnologiei. Față de The Structured Literacy Playbook, care este un instrument practic pentru educatori, sau Das lesende Gehirn, care explorează pasiunea pentru cuvinte, acest volum servește drept fundament teoretic esențial. Proust and the Squid pune bazele pentru temele dezvoltate ulterior în Reader, Come Home, avertizând asupra riscului pierderii capacității de lectură profundă într-o lume dominată de fluxuri vizuale rapide.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781848310308
ISBN-10: 1848310307
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Icon Books
Locul publicării:Duxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru părinți, educatori și pasionați de neuroștiințe care doresc să înțeleagă miracolul biologic din spatele alfabetizării. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care lectura ne modelează gândirea critică și va descoperi mecanismele subtile care explică de ce unii copii întâmpină dificultăți la școală. Este un argument solid pentru protejarea lecturii profunde în era digitală.


Despre autor

Maryanne Wolf este un renumit expert în neuropsihologie și dezvoltarea copilului, ocupând funcția de profesor la Universitatea Tufts. În calitate de director al Centrului pentru Cercetare în Lectură și Limbă, activitatea sa se concentrează pe mecanismele cognitive ale procesului de citire și pe tratarea dislexiei. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century, îmbină rigoarea academică cu o abordare umanistă, fiind recunoscută la nivel internațional pentru modul în care explică adaptabilitatea creierului uman în fața provocărilor limbajului scris.


Descriere

Explores our brains' near-miraculous ability to arrange and re-arrange themselves in response to external circumstances. This title examines how this 'open architecture', the elasticity of our brains, helps and hinders humans in their attempts to learn to read, and to process the written language.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts.
Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Proust and the Squid asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians was a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today's technology-driven literacy. The potential transformations in this changed reading brain, Wolf argues, have profound implications for every child and for the intellectual development of our species.

Recenzii

“For everyone who has wondered how reading and writing happen, here is an entertaining, comprehensive, delightfully clear account of how our brain allowed us to become word magicians. A splendid achievement!” — Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading
“Wolf’s intriguing combination of linguistic history, sociology, psychology, and neuroscience is engaging and clear. The figures and illustrations as well as the wonderful literary quotes enrich her readable prose...Recommended.” — Library Journal
“[Maryanne Wolf] displays extraordinary passion and perceptiveness concerning the reading brain, its miraculous achievements and tragic dysfunctions.” — BookForum
“Everything Wolf says makes sense....She clearly knows her stuff.” — Washington Post Book World
“Wolf restores our awe of the human brain its adaptability, its creativity and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Brilliant and eye-opening.” — Philadelphia Inquirer
“[Proust and the Squid] rises from a merely professional tome to a personal and highly accessible project.” — California Literary Review
“Brilliant and eye-opening.” — Albany Times Union
“Wolf’s knowledge of and appreciation for her subject are apparent....fascinating....Wolf restores our awe of the human brain its adaptability, its creativity and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
“[Wolf’s] conversational style, reflective comments and insights from work with children...create a narrative flow and bright tone.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“The squid of Wolf’s title represents the neurobiological approach to the study of reading....Given the panic that takes hold of humanists when the decline of reading is discussed, her cold-blooded perspective is opportune.” — The New Yorker
“A book worth talking about.” — U.S. News & World Report
“Enjoyable....Wolf, with remarkable agility in a relatively compact book (intended for both aficionados and the uninitiated), transitions seamlessly between disciplines as diverse as linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and archeology, among others. Her voice comes through clearly; she is fascinated by reading and shares that energy.” — New England Journal of Medicine
“Wolf’s alarm about the spread of semi- literacy among the young is obviously justified, and her book provokes thought about it as only reading can.” — Sunday Times (London)
“This humane and fascinating book...is a paean to what Proust, über-reader, called ‘that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude,’ to all that has been and can be achieved for individuals and for mankind through literacy.” — The Evening Standard (London)
“Blindingly fascinating...detailed and scholarly....There’s a lot of difficult material in here. But it’s worth the effort....For people interested in language, this is a must. You’ll find yourself focusing on words in new ways. Read it slowly--it will take time to sink in.” — The Sunday Telegraph
“Proust and the Squid is an inspiring celebration of the science of reading....Wolf’s insights are fascinating....Proust and the Squid has much to offer on this important--perhaps the most important--subject” — The Guardian (London)
“Her book is a remarkable excavation of something we take largely for granted, and throws up plenty of thought-provoking ideas along the way.” — Sunday Times (London)

Notă biografică

Maryanne Wolf, the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, was the director of the Tufts Center for Reading and Language Research. She currently directs the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA, and is working with the Dyslexia Center at the UCSF School of Medicine and with Curious Learning: A Global Literacy Project, which she co-founded. She is the recipient of multiple research and teaching honors, including the highest awards by the International Dyslexia Association and the Australian Learning Disabilities Association. She is the author of Proust and the Squid (HarperCollins), Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press), and more than 160 scientific publications.