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"This book is a compelling collection of essays by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe. It offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graff, Harvey J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1995.
Edición:Rev. and expanded ed.
Colección:Composition, Literacy, and Culture Ser.
Temas:
Literacy > Social aspects > Europe.
Literacy > Social aspects > North America.
Literacy > Europe > History.
Literacy > North America > History.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
Literacy.
Literacy > Social aspects.
Alphabetisierung
Geschichte
Alfabetisme.
Sociale aspecten.
Europe.
North America.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the 1995 Edition
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Legacies and Contradictions of Literacy
  • 1. Reflections on the History of Literacy: Overview, Critique, and Proposals
  • Part II. The Ideologies of Literacy, Past and Present
  • Introductory Note
  • 2. Literacy Past and Present: Critical Approaches in the Literacy/Society Relationship
  • 3. Literacy and Social Development in North America: On Ideology and History
  • 4. Exaggerated Estimates of Reading and Writing as Means of Education (1867)
  • Part III. The Social Relations of Literacy
  • Introductory Note
  • 5. Critical Literacy Versus Cultural Literacy: Reading Signs of the Times?
  • 6. Literacy, Education, and Fertility, Past and Present: A Critical Review
  • 7. On Literacy in the Renaissance: Review and Reflections
  • 8. Literacy in History: Review Essay
  • 9. Respected and Profitable Labour: Literacy, Jobs, and the Working Class in the Nineteeth Century
  • 10. ""Pauperism, Misery, and Vice"": Illiteracy and Criminality in the Nineteenth Century
  • 11. Literacy in Literature and in Life: An Early Twentieth-Century Example
  • 12. Literacy, Libraries, Lives: New Social and Cultural Histories
  • 13. On Literacy: Review Essay (1983)
  • 14. National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective
  • Part IV. Ends and Beginnings
  • 15. Whither the History of Literacy? The Future of the Past
  • 16. Literacy, Myths, and Legacies: Lessons from the History of Literacy

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