Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
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 Review

Every 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

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Literacy: Reading the Word and the World
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 Review

Every 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

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Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

by Donaldo Macedo
Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

by Donaldo Macedo

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Overview

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 Review

Every 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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780897891264
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/31/1987
Series: Critical Studies in Education
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Donaldo Macedo is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is co-author, with Paulo Freire, of Literacy: Reading the World and the Word (1987).
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