Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons New Studies on Literacy |
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| Author:
| Graff, Harvey J. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4128-4966-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2012 |
| Publisher: | Transaction Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $40.70 |
Book Description:
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Continuing the author's critical revisions of many common ideas among scholars, these eight essays focus on the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations. Special emphasis falls upon the usefulness of "the literacy myth" as an important subject for interdisciplinary study and understanding.|In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian...
More DescriptionContinuing the author's critical revisions of many common ideas among scholars, these eight essays focus on the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations. Special emphasis falls upon the usefulness of "the literacy myth" as an important subject for interdisciplinary study and understanding.|In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many common ideas among scholars and others. The eight wide-ranging and diverse essays speak to each other's central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations.