ISBN:
0521783151
,
0521003067
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 258 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
302.2/244
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Alphabétisation - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Geschichte
;
Literacy History 20th century
;
Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
;
Analphabetismus
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
USA
;
Analphabetismus
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
Traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how--as students, workers, parents, and citizens--they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society. Drawing on more than 80 life histories of Americans from all walks of life, the book addresses critical questions facing public education at the start of the twenty-first century.
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam031/00045425.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam031/00045425.html
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