ISBN:
9783031092619
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (119 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.2244
Keywords:
Literacy
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Illiteracy Myths -- The Literacy Spectrum -- A Multi-Disciplinary Approach -- Splendour and Misery of the Signature Test -- What Was Illiteracy? -- Chapter 2: The War on Illiteracy -- How Illiteracy Got Its Stigma -- Illiteracy, Orality and 'Backwardness' -- Campaigns Against Illiteracy -- Stamping Out Illiteracy: USSR and Nicaragua -- Paulo Freire -- Chapter 3: Illiteracy and Power -- The Oral and the Illiterate -- Denying the Right to Literacy -- Parental Censorship -- Choosing Illiteracy -- Chapter 4: Illiteracy and Schooling -- Illiteracy Panics -- The Limitations of Formal Schooling -- Becoming Literate Without Schools -- The Demand for Literacy -- Chapter 5: The Literary Culture of the Illiterate -- The City as a Text -- Reading and Listening -- Delegated Writing -- World War One as a National Literacy Test -- Illiterates Count -- Invisible Illiteracy -- Chapter 6: The Literacy Continuum -- Historicising Illiteracy -- Imperfect Literacies -- The Example of China -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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