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The Legacies of Literacy – Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (Paper) de Harvey J. Graff

The Legacies of Literacy – Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (Paper)

Autor Harvey J. Graff, Società Editric Società Editric
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 1987
"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." Michael B. Katz
"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." Journal of Economic History
..". ambitious and stimulating... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." Histoire Sociale
"Clearly an important book... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." History of Education Quarterly
"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." Journal of Communication"
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253205988
ISBN-10: 0253205980
Pagini: 494
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Preface<BR>Acknowledgments<BR>Part One: Setting the Stage<BR>Introduction: Literacy's Legacies<BR>1. The Origins of Western Literacy<BR> 1. From Writing to Literacy<BR> 2. Literacy's First Legacies: From Athens<BR> 3. ...to Rome, and Beyond<BR>Part Two: Before the Printing Press: The Middle Ages<BR>2. Th Light of Literacy in the ÒDark AgesÓ<BR> 1. Fifth-Seventh Centuries<BR> 2. Seventh Century<BR> 3. Eighth Century<BR> 4. Ninth-Tenth Centuries<BR>3. New Lights of Literacy and Learning: From the Tenth-Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries<BR> 1. Italy and Commercial Revolution<BR> 2. The Church, Papacy, and Schools<BR> 3. Patterns of Literacy<BR> 4. Thought, Theory, and Practice<BR>4. Ends and Beginnings: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries<BR> 1. Humanism and the Italian Renaissance<BR> 2. Continental Conditions in Literacy<BR> 3. The English Example<BR>5. Print, Protest, and the People<BR> 1. The Advent and Impact of Print<BR> 2. Renaissance(s) Revisited<BR> 3. Print, Reform, and Reformation<BR> 4. Reforming Literacy Provision<BR>6. Toward Enlightenment/Toward Modernity: 1660-1780<BR> 1. Thinking about Literacy and Schooling<BR> 2. Patterns of Literacy: Paths to Literacy<BR>Part Four: Toward the Present and the Future<BR>7. The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Our Times<BR> 1. The Setting<BR> 2. Literacy's Paths and Patterns<BR>Epilogue: Today and Tomorrow: Revisioning Literacy
2. Imputed Impacts and Consequences; or, Great and Other Dichotomies Revisited<BR> 3. A Crisis in Literacy?<BR> 4. Literacy, Culture, and Society: Communications and the Future of Literacy<BR>Notes<BR>Index<BR>

Recenzii

"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." - Michael B. Katz<p>"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." - <I>Journal of Economic History</I><p>" . . . ambitious and stimulating . . . required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." - <I>Histoire Sociale</I><p>"Clearly an important book . . . marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." - <I>History of Education Quarterly</I><p>"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." - <I>Journal of Communication</I>
"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." - Michael B. Katz"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." - Journal of Economic History" ... ambitious and stimulating ... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." - Histoire Sociale"Clearly an important book ... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." - History of Education Quarterly"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." - Journal of Communication

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This wide-ranging synthesis of literacy research explores the dimensions and meanings of literacy in the West, examined in terms of its social and historical contexts, and suggest important ways of connecting the history of literacy to significant questions of Western civilization in the late twentieth century.

Notă biografică

Harvey J. Graff, OtherSocietà editrice il Mulino s.p.a.