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Contemporary Societies
critical pedagogy
Cultural Consonance
curriculum literacy
curriculum policy
Cuttle Fish
Democratic Political Ethic
education government
education literacy
educational technology
English curriculum
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Experimental World Literacy Programme
human rights education
impact of reading skills on society
Internal Revenue Service
John Wycliffe
language development
learning reading
learning writing
literacy policy analysis
Mycenaean Civilisation
primary literacy
psychology literacy
psychology reading
psychology writing
reading skills
school literacy
schools government
secondary school english
social transformation
societal values change
teaching literacy
Young Men
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
Product details
- ISBN 9780815372691
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1980. The skills of reading and writing have been proclaimed as universal human rights. This book explores why this should be so. In particular, it examines whether or not the possession of reading or writing skills has, or has not, influenced the values and organisation of society. Viewing literacy as a technology, the author maintains that like all technologies, it is created by man for limited purposes. Nevertheless, given the right conditions, it can be used by man to change not only other technologies, but also himself and (in the end) all of his society. But like other technologies, literacy too may be subject to obsolescence which poses the all-important question of whether the advent of universal literacy has coincided with the redundancy of the written word.
