Shaping the Reading Field: The Impact of Early Reading Pioneers, Scientific Research, and Progressive Ideas

Make informed decisions about the future of reading instruction by exploring the lives and lasting contributions of early literacy leaders who helped shape the field. ''Shaping the Reading Field'' documents the lives of 16 reading researchers, reading practitioners, and specialists in children's literature and adult reading. You'll find vivid biographical sketches of such notable pioneers as James McKeen Cattell, Charles Hubbard Judd, Edmund Burke Huey, Bernice Elizabeth Leary, Ernest Horn, William Scott Gray, and Ruth May Strang. Using historical research based on qualitative, quantitative, and oral history approaches, the contributors interpret and sort the evidence of the past, revealing how the pioneers' work has helped define reading education.

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