Routledge Revivals

In: Routledge Revivals: Language, Education and Society Ser v.1

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editor's preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Approaching literacy -- Introduction -- Dimensions of literacy and illiteracy -- 2 Defining and measuring literacy and illiteracy -- Defining literacy -- Functional literacy: a brief history -- Operationalising functional literacy -- A sociological conception of literacy -- 3 The historical perspective -- Introduction -- Literacy in classical Greece and Rome -- Medieval manuscript literacy in Britain -- The advent of print -- Literacy in early modern Britain -- The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 4 Tutors and students -- Introduction -- Illiteracy myths -- The Nottingham Adult Literacy Scheme -- Recruitment and matching procedures -- Tutor training -- The Nottingham literacy catchment area -- Illiteracy careers -- Initial contacts -- Tuition and orientations to illiteracy -- Progress and dropping out -- Summary -- 5 Illiteracy and work -- Introduction -- The Nottingham labour market -- Work histories -- Employers and illiteracy -- Explaining literacy screening policies -- 6 Dealing with illiteracy -- Introduction -- The British Adult Literacy Campaign -- The political economy of illiteracy -- The scale of illiteracy: misreading the problem -- Responding to social disadvantage -- Remedying illiteracy -- 7 The future of literacy and literacies of the future -- Introduction -- The oral-literate transition -- Literacy and the information explosion -- Appendix 1 Details of sampling and interviewing procedures -- Appendix 2 English historical literacy rates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index