num_pages: 208
description: 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 ReviewEvery 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
language: English
title: Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
titlecomplete: Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
genres: Social Justice, Language, Philosophy, Education, Research, Grad School, Nonfiction, Academic, Teaching, Politics
ratings_count: 184
publisher: Praeger