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The language of experience : literate practices and social change

Title
The language of experience : literate practices and social change / Gwen Gorzelsky.
Author
Gorzelsky, Gwen.
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2005.

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Description
x, 250 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
This book examines the relationship between literacy and change--both personal and social. The author studies three cases, two historical and one contemporary, that speak to key issues on the national education agenda.
Series Statement
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Uniform Title
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1640-2000
  • Literacy > Social aspects
  • Literacy > Psychological aspects
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • writing (processes)
  • Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Alfabetisme
  • Sociale verandering
  • Persoonlijkheidsontwikkeling
  • Gestaltpsychologie
  • Opbouwwerk
  • Diggers
  • Levellers
  • Vakverenigingen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.
Contents
Conceiving change : models, methods, and literate practices -- Contact style -- A passion for the possible -- New heavens and new earth -- Where we're at -- To feel that you are a citizen -- Promoting contact : literate practices and change.
ISBN
  • 0822958740
  • 9780822958741
LCCN
  • 2004025539
  • 99810418199
OCLC
  • ocm56913385
  • 56913385
  • SCSB-8908264
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library