Literacy: Reading the Word and the World (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)
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Donaldo Macedo (Author)
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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
About the Author
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).
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- Contributor: Donaldo Macedo
- Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
- ISBN13: 9780897891257
- Number of Pages: 207
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 454
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Release Date: 1987-07-31
- Series: Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: 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).
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