The labyrinths of literacy : reflections on literacy past and present
"This book is a compelling collection of essays by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe. It 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."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©1995
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University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, ©1995
History
xxxiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780822955627, 9781850001645, 0822955628, 1850001642
31938075
Foreword / Shirley Brice Heath
1. Reflections on the History of Literacy: Overview, Critique, and Proposals
2. Literacy Past and Present: Critical Approaches in the Literacy/Society Relationship
3. Literacy and Social Development in North America: On Ideology and History
4. Exaggerated Estimates of Reading and Writing as Means of Education (1867) / W. B. Hodgson
5. Critical Literacy Versus Cultural Literacy: Reading Signs of the Times?
6. Literacy, Education, and Fertility, Past and Present: A Critical Review
7. On Literacy in the Renaissance: Review and Reflections
8. Literacy in History: Review Essay
9. Respected and Profitable Labour: Literacy, Jobs, and the Working Class in the Nineteenth Century
10. "Pauperism, Misery, and Vice": Illiteracy and Criminality in the Nineteenth Century
11. Literacy in Literature and in Life: An Early Twentieth-Century Example
12. Literacy, Libraries, Lives: New Social and Cultural Histories
13. On Literacy: Review Essay (1983)
14. National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective / Robert F. Arnove
15. Whither the History of Literacy? The Future of the Past
16. Literacy, Myths, and Legacies: Lessons from the History of Literacy