Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

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Bloomsbury Academic, Jul 31, 1987 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 184 pages

At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response.
Harvard Educational Review

Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. Times Educational Supplement

[This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning. Contemporary Sociology

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Contents

Introduction Literacy and the Pedagogy
1
The Importance of the
29
Adult Literacy and Popular
37
Copyright

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