Literate Systems and Individual Lives

Perspectives on Literacy and Schooling

Av Edward M. Jennings, Alan C. Purves

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This book raises important questions concerning the "shame" of illiteracy. What does it mean to students to be drawn into a world where family and friends cannot follow? Can the same person appear literate and illiterate at the same time? Is literacy, for that matter, an either/or condition? Does it "hurt" to be illiterate in more than one language, more than one culture? To whom can literacy education be a threat instead of a promise?The chapters in this book confront the unknowable implication of joining literate systems, and carry us toward an understanding that can help literacy practitioners and policy-makers at local, national, and international levels to better understand the issues involved in this important area of work.

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Utgivningsdatum: 1991-07-03
Vikt: 476 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Serie: SUNY series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice
Antal sidor: 222
Förlag: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9780791405130

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At the State University of New York at Albany, Edward M. Jennings is Assistant Professor of English and Alan C. Purves is Professor of English and Humanities and Director, Center for Writing and Literacy.

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"...a well-written and accessible introduction to issues of concern to individuals in elementary and secondary schooling, adult literacy programs, and college developmental skills departments. It promotes an essential cross-fertilization of ideas and disciplines. The authors reveal a gentle appreciation of the ways in which we take too much for granted. The gentleness, though, enhances the power of the insight." — John Garvey, City University of New York

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