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Literacy in American lives /
Traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how--as students, workers,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Literacy, opportunity and economic change
- Literacy and illiteracy in documentary America
- Accumulating literacy: how four generations of one American family learned to write
- The power of it : sponsors of literacy in African American lives
- The sacred and the profane: reading vs. writing in popular memory
- The means of production: literacy and stratification at the 21st century.