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Download full textInformation Update, 1991
This document examines political questions that surround the issue of literacy. "City Literacy Cuts" outlines effects of the most recent budget cuts in New York City. "Families, Inequality, and Power: The Cultural Politics of Literacy" (Deborah D'Amico-Samuels) focuses on the importance of understanding the different models…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Bilingual Education
Klassen, Cecil – 1987
An approach based on sociolinguistic theory is reported that was devised to describe the way written language operates in the different domains that make up the everyday lives of a given group of people. The approach involves the practices that the people use to deal with written language, and the perceptions (uses, beliefs, attitudes) they have…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
