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 SociologyAbout the AuthorDonaldo 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).
Book InformationISBN 9780897891264
Author Professor Donaldo MacedoFormat Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 340g