Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

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<p>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. </p><p><i>Harvard Educational Review</i> </p><p /><p>Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. <i>Times Educational Supplement</i> </p><p /><p>[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. <i>Contemporary Sociology</i></p>