The Labyrinths Of Literacy: Reflections On Literacy Past And Present (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

The Labyrinths Of Literacy: Reflections On Literacy Past And Present (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Harvey Graff
$77.00
Publication Date: September 14th, 1995
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822955627
Pages:
336
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Description

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.

About the Author

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.

Praise for The Labyrinths Of Literacy: Reflections On Literacy Past And Present (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

“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

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