Producing Good Citizens : Literacy Training in Anxious Times.

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"Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this pheno...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wan, Amy J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
©20
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Subjects:
1865-1999
Acculturation > United States > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > United States > History > 20th century.
Citizenship > United States > History > 20th century.
Literacy > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Acculturation
Citizenship
Ethnic relations > Political aspects
Immigrants
Literacy > Political aspects
Social conditions
United States > Social conditions > 1865-1918.
United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932.
United States > Ethnic relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1865-1918.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1918-1932.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques > Aspect politique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In the Name of Citizenship
  • Literacy Training, Americanization, and the Cultivation of the Productive Worker-Citizen
  • Class Work : Labor Education and Literacy Hope
  • English and Useful Citizenship in a Culture of Aspiration
  • Teaching Literacy and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century.

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