Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

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At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response. Harvard Educational Review Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. Times Educational Supplement [This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning. Contemporary Sociology

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"At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the closed minds' of American youth. . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response."-Harvard Educational Review
[This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning.-Contemporary Sociology
Every chapter . . . asks teachers to think again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils and how to get on with it.-The Times Educational Supplement
Freire and Macedo's work cannot be ignored by the student of educational change in contemporary society. It should be consulted by anyone who believes in using education as a vehicle of social change.-Small Press Book Review
Freire's provocative explanation of [literacy] could lead to a constructive dialectical debate' in the United States.-The Los Angeles Times
"This book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning."-Contemporary Sociology
"Freire's provocative explanation of literacy could lead to a constructive dialectical debate' in the United States."-The Los Angeles Times
"[This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning."-Contemporary Sociology
"Every chapter . . . asks teachers to think again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils and how to get on with it."-The Times Educational Supplement
"Freire's provocative explanation of [literacy] could lead to a constructive dialectical debate' in the United States."-The Los Angeles Times
"Freire and Macedo's work cannot be ignored by the student of educational change in contemporary society. It should be consulted by anyone who believes in using education as a vehicle of social change."-Small Press Book Review

Author Bio

Donaldo Macedo is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is co-author, with Paulo Freire, of Literacy: Reading the World and the Word (1987).