Publication

1999 - Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

45,500 words, Guess

Page Count

182 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2709096
  • Goodreads1213777

Classifications

  • LCCLC149.5 .S45 1999

Description

"Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the twentieth century.". "To provide a specific case study of this complex cultural formation, Cynthia L. Selfe discusses the Technology Literacy Challenge, an official, federally sponsored literacy project begun in 1996 that has changed - at fundamentally important levels - the definition of literacy and the practices recognized as constituting literate behavior in America. Selfe tries to identify the effects of this new literacy agenda, focusing specifically on what she calls "serious and shameful" inequities it fosters in our culture and in the public education system: among them, the continuing presence of racism, poverty, and illiteracy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in writing & rhetoric

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