Deborah Brandt, Brandt Deborah

Literacy in American Lives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780521003063
• ISBN-10: 0521003067
• Artikelnr.: 21437134

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the pursuit of liberty
1. Literacy, opportunity and economic change
2. Literacy and illiteracy in documentary America
3. Accumulating literacy: how four generations of one American family learned to write
4. 'The power of it': sponsors of literacy in African American lives
5. The sacred and the profane: reading vs. writing in popular memory
6. The means of production: literacy and stratification at the 21st century
Conclusion.