Perspectives on literacy / edited by Eugene R. Kintgen, Barry M. Kroll, Mike Rose. - xix, 475 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-475) and index.

The consequences of literacy / Jack Goody and Ian Watt -- Some psychodynamics of orality / Walter J. Ong -- Implications of literacy in traditional China and India / Kathleen Gough -- Unpackaging literacy / Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole -- Literacy in three metaphors / Sylvia Scribner -- The legacies of literacy / Harvey J. Graff -- The history of literacy and the history of readers / Carl F. Kaestle -- The coming of literate communication to Western culture / Eric A. Havelock -- Hearing and seeing and trusting writing / M.T. Clanchy -- Defining "literacy" in North American schools : social and historical conditions and consequences / Suzanne de Castell and Allan Luke -- From utterance to text : the bias of language in speech and writing / David R. Olson -- The nature of literacy : a historical exploration / Daniel P. Resnick and Lauren B. Resnick -- School literacy, reasoning, and civility : an anthropologist's perspective / Frederick Erickson -- Literacy and schooling in subordinate cultures : the case of Black Americans / John U. Ogbu -- The social context of literacy / Jay L. Robinson -- Reading and writing requirements / Richard C. Richardson, Jr., Elizabeth C. Fisk, and Morris A. Okun -- Toward a composing model of reading / Robert J. Tierney and P. David Pearson -- Inventing the university / David Bartholomae -- "Strangers no more" : a liberatory literacy curriculum / Kyle Fiore and Nan Elsasser -- The ethnography of literacy / John F. Szwed -- The development of initial literacy / Yetta Goodman -- Rethinking development and organization / Jerome C. Harste, Virginia A. Woodward, and Carolyn L. Burke -- Protean shapes in literacy events : ever-shifting oral and literate traditions / Shirley Brice Heath -- The nature of reading at work / William A. Diehl and Larry Mikulecky -- Who are the adult illiterates? / Carman St. John Hunter and David Harman -- Realities of illiteracy / Anne Eberle and Sandra Robinson -- The adult literacy process as cultural action for freedom and education and conscientizac̜ão / Paulo Freire -- The Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade of 1980 / Robert F. Arnove.

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Literacy--Cross-cultural studies
Elementary education of adults--Cross-cultural studies

LC149. / P47 1988

428.4