| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247). |
| Awards |
University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, 2003. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Literacy, opportunity and economic change -- Literacy and illiteracy in documentary America -- Accumulating literacy: how four generations of one American family learned to write -- The power of it : sponsors of literacy in African American lives -- The sacred and the profane: reading vs. writing in popular memory -- The means of production: literacy and stratification at the 21st century. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Literacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Literacy. (OCoLC)fst00999859
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit.
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Analphabetismus.
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi. |
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brandt, Deborah, 1951- Literacy in American lives. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521783151 (DLC) 00045425 (OCoLC)44885198 |
| ISBN |
0511013329 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511013324 (electronic bk.) |
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0511174241 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511174247 (electronic bk.) |
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