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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I: Searching for Literacy Studies -- 1: Back to Basics -- From Sales to Performance -- Literacy Now -- Searching for Literacy -- Literacy Studies Past and Future -- Historicizing Literacy Studies -- Disciplining and Undisciplining Literacy Studies -- References -- 2: Linguistics: Between Orality and Writing -- The Biases of Linguistics -- From Literacy to Orality -- From Speech to Script and Back Again -- Singers of Tales, Speakers of Words -- Alphabets and their Legacies -- Formulating Divides -- Between the Oral and the Written -- In the Americas -- Rethinking the Relationships between Orality and Literacy -- References -- 3: Anthropology: Reading and Writing from Pictographs to Ethnography -- Traditions of Difference -- Anthropological Legacies of Literacy -- Goody and Beyond -- Theories and Practices -- Local Literacies and Limits -- Renaissance and Recovery? -- Traditions of Ethnographies -- Toward Anthropologies of Literacy? -- References -- 4: Psychology: Between Mind and Culture -- Whose World on Paper? -- Toward New Psychologies of Literacy -- A Cultural and Social Psychology of Literacy -- A Case Study of Literacy in Cultural Context -- Literacy in Theory and Practice, Again? -- References -- 5: Literature and Composition: Reading and Writing Revised -- Many Literacies, from Reading to Writing and All Things Digital -- Images of Writing and Reading -- Reading Reviewed and Renewed -- Rereading -- Toward a New Future for Reading Studies -- Writing over Reading Revisited and Revised -- Writing and Reading -- Reading in the Rise of Writing -- Reading, Writing, and Renewing Literacy Studies -- References -- 6: Many Literacies, Other Visions: Digital, Visual, Science, Numbers, Performance -- Digital Literacy or Digital Media? -- Digital Literacy to Save the World?.

This book provides a critical account of the development of questions, approaches, methods, and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines. It provides a critique of literacy studies, including the New Literacy Studies. This book completes a series that the author began in the 1970s. It criticizes and revises the New Literacy Studies and how we think about literacy generally. It is a revisionist study which argues that literacy and literacy studies are historical developments and must be understood in those terms to comprehend their profound impact on our traditions of thinking about and understanding literacy, and how we study it. Graff argues that literacy studies in its academic, institutional, and policy forums, but also in popular parlance, has lost its critical foundations, and this hinders efforts to promote literacy. He examines literacy over time and across linguistics; anthropology; psychology; reading and writing across modes of communication and comprehension; "new" literacies across digital, visual, performance, numerical, and scientific domains; and history. He underscores the value of new directions of negotiation and translation. This book will interest scholars and students in the many fields that constitute literacy studies across the humanities, social sciences, education, and beyond. Harvey J. Graff is Professor Emeritus of English and History at The Ohio State University, USA. He was inaugural Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and founded the university-wide interdisciplinary initiative LiteracyStudies@OSU. One of the worlds authorities, his books are recognized landmarks, from The Literacy Myth to The Legacies of Literacy and The Labyrinths of Literacy, among others on children and youth, cities, and interdisciplinarity.

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Many Literacies: Reading Signs of the Times -- chapter 3 The Literacy Myth, co-authored with John Duffy -- chapter 4 The Literacy Myth at Thirty -- chapter 5 Assessing the History of Literacy: Themes and Questions -- chapter 6 National Literacy Campaigns and Movements: Historical and Comparative Perspectives—Introduction to the Transaction Edition, co-authored with Robert F. Arnove -- chapter 7 Literacy Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies: ReÀ ections on History and Theory -- chapter 8 LiteracyStudies@OSU as Theory and Practice.

Introduction : the problem of interdisciplinarity in theory and practice over time -- Sciences of life and society in the making of the research university : genetic biology and sociology, 1890s-1920s -- Crossing and remaking boundaries : the humanities and communication, 1870s-1960s -- In search of unification for war and peace : social relations and operations research, 1930s-1960s -- Between mind and mentality : cognitive science and new histories, 1940s-1980s -- A material world and the making of lifeworlds : materials science and cultural studies, 1950s-1990s -- The past and future of interdisciplinarity : bioscience and literacy studies

I first met Michael Katz on a clear, cool autumn afternoon in 1970. I was an uncertain first-year graduate student at the University of Toronto intending to complete a doctorate in British history with a project on antisocialism. Feeling confused, anxious, and unsatisfied by my courses, I began to share my concerns with fellow students. One of them, who became a lifelong friend (and editor), suggested that I contact that "young professor up the street" in history of education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education who worked in the new social history. Having read Thernstrom, Tilly, E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Barrington Moore, and so forth, in a senior honors seminar, I drew up my courage and went to meet Michael.