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The Labyrinths Of Literacy
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The Labyrinths Of Literacy

Reflections On Literacy Past And Present

By Harvey Graff
Readers who don't want their current assumptions about literacy's place in the world to be challenged should not read this book.
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A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

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Harvey Graff has been exploring and mapping the labyrinths of literacy since the early 1970s. In a steady stream of books, and essays, Graff has been busily 'deconstrucing' our conventional conceptions of literacy as a precondition to meaningful reconstruction. . . . In chapters that vary in terms of specific focus, depth and nature of criticism, and explicitness of theoretical and policy orientations, Graff offers his readers a series of compass readings that have led him into—but not necessarily out of—the labyrinth of literacy.

Journal of Educational Administration and History

336 Pages, 6 x 9.1 in.

September, 1995

isbn : 9780822955627

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Harvey Graff

Harvey J. Graff is Professor of History and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of many publications, including Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America.

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