Labyrinths Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture) / Edition 2

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Overview

A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

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“Harvey Graff has been exploring and mapping the labyrinths of literacy since the early 1970s.  In a steady stream of books, and essays, Graff has been busily ‘deconstrucing’ our conventional conceptions of literacy as a precondition to meaningful reconstruction. . . . In chapters that vary in terms of specific focus, depth and nature of criticism, and explicitness of theoretical and policy orientations, Graff offers his readers a series of compass readings that have led him into—but not necessarily out of—the labyrinth of literacy.”
--Journal of Educational Administration and History

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Sixteen essays on the relation of literacy to society and the problem-solving, knowledge-creating, and communication side- benefits of the ability to read and write. First published by Falmer Press, 1987. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780822955627
  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Publication date: 9/28/1995
  • Series: Pitt Comp Literacy Culture
  • Edition description: Revised
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 349
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.13 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the 1995 Edition
Introduction
1 Reflections on the History of Literacy: Overview, Critique, and Proposals 3
2 Literacy Past and Present: Critical Approaches in the Literacy/Society Relationship 37
3 Literacy and Social Development in North America: On Ideology and History 61
4 Exaggerated Estimates of Reading and Writing as Means of Education (1867) 82
5 Critical Literacy Versus Cultural Literacy: Reading Signs of the Times? 105
6 Literacy, Education, and Fertility, Past and Present: A Critical Review 114
7 On Literacy in the Renaissance: Review and Reflections 146
8 Literacy in History: Review Essay 166
9 Respected and Profitable Labour: Literacy, Jobs, and the Working Class in the Nineteenth Century 175
10 "Pauperism, Misery, and Vice": Illiteracy and Criminality in the Nineteenth Century 200
11 Literacy in Literature and in Life: An Early Twentieth-Century Example 227
12 Literacy, Libraries, Lives: New Social and Cultural Histories 246
13 On Literacy: Review Essay (1983) 266
14 National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective 270
15 Whither the History of Literacy? The Future of the Past 301
16 Literacy, Myths, and Legacies: Lessons from the History of Literacy 318
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