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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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 .

Harvard Educational Review

Every chapter .

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The aim of this interdisciplinary series is to create critical spaces for pedagogical and political interventions in both school and cultural sites. The titles represent a mix of approaches including historical, bibliographical, critical, sociological, economic, and ethnographic.
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Product details

ISBN
9780897891264
Published
1987-07-31
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight
340 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208

Biographical note

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).