The 25 articles in this collection focus on reading as a humanizing experience. The topics covered include the following: (1) the politics of literacy; (2) the holographic nature of the reading process; (3) literacy through language communication; (4) life-long reading; (5) diagnosis of reading disabilities based on psychoeducational analysis of the learning function; (6) teaching reading in early-modern England; (7) changing teacher behavior in China; (8) children's questions and explanations in the classroom; (9) language proficiency testing; (10) children's drawings as a readiness measure and a resource for learning; (11) reading, misreading, and rereading literature; (12) the syntax and semantics of reading; (13) key concepts and instructional models for bilingual education programs; (14) maintainance and transitional approaches to bilingual instruction; and (15) teaching reading to the linguistically different student. (FL)