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Author:   Kenneth Levine
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781138242036

ISBN 10:   1138242039
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Editor’s preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Approaching literacy; Introduction Dimensions of literacy and illiteracy; 2 Defining and measuring literacy and illiteracy; Defining literacy Functional literacy: a brief history Operationalising functional literacy A sociological conception of literacy; 3 The historical perspective Introduction Literacy in classical Greece and Rome Medieval manuscript literacy in Britain The advent of print Literacy in early modern Britain The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 4 Tutors and students; Introduction Illiteracy myths The Nottingham Adult Literacy Scheme Recruitment and matching procedures Tutor training The Nottingham literacy catchment area Illiteracy careers Initial contacts Tuition and orientations to illiteracy Progress and dropping out Summary; 5 Illiteracy and work; Introduction The British Adult Literacy Campaign The political economy of illiteracy The scale of illiteracy: misreading the problem Responding to social disadvantage Remedying illiteracy; 7 The future of literacy and literacies of the future; Introduction The oral-literate transition Literacy and the information explosion; Appendix 1 Details of sampling and interviewing procedures; Appendix 2 English historical literacy rates; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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