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World literacy in the year 2000

Title
World literacy in the year 2000 / special editors of this volume, Daniel A. Wagner, Laurel D. Puchner.
Publication
Newbury Park, CA : Sage, 1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Wagner, Daniel A., 1946-
  • Puchner, Laurel D.
Description
228 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Series Statement
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 520
Uniform Title
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 520.
Subject
  • Prognose
  • Literacy
  • Functional literacy
  • Alphabetisierung
  • Internationaler Vergleich
  • Lesefähigkeit
  • Literatursoziologie
  • Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
  • Weltgesellschaft
  • Alfabetisme
  • LITERACY
  • EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Note
  • "March 1992"--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • World literacy : research and policy in the EFA decade / Daniel A. Wagner -- Universal adult literacy : policy myths and realities / Stephen P. Heyneman -- Literacy in a larger context / Manzoor Ahmed -- Literacy research, policy, and practice : the elusive triangle / John Ryan -- Literacy and human resources development : an integrated approach / John E.S. Lawrence -- Women and literacy : promises and constraints / Nelly P. Stromquist -- Functional literacy : north-south perspectives / Adama Ouane -- Reading instructions for using commercial medicines / Thomas Owen Eisemon, Jeanne Ratzlaff, and Vimla L. Patel -- Mother-tongue literacy in Nigeria / J.T. Okedara and C.A. Okedara -- Functional literacy, health, and quality of life / A. El Bindari Hammad in collaboration with C. Mulholland -- Women and literacy in Morocco / Jennifer E. Spratt -- Raising literacy under fragile state institutions / Bruce Fuller -- Children's literacy and public schools in Latin America / Emilia Ferreiro.
  • Literacy efforts in India / Anil Bordia and Anita Kaul -- Sociolinguistic minorites and scholastic difficulties in France / Geneviève Vermes and Michèle Kastenbaum -- Literacy acquisition in Peru, Asia, and the United States / Harold W. Stevenson and Chuansheng Chen.
ISBN
  • 0803944799
  • 9780803944794
  • 0803944780
  • 9780803944787
LCCN
91061243
OCLC
  • ocm25424360
  • 25424360
  • SCSB-1940879
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library