Phil Graham wrote:
>
> Ricardo,
>
> I'm not saying that literacy will automatically ensure protection against
> ideological violence, but what I _am_ saying is that the ruling class have
> historically enjoyed the priviliges of literacy, which is a communication
> and therefore an organisational technology (ie a technology of control for
> _them_ . Therefore it matters not in the least to the ruler whether the
> ruled are literate or not). Critical literacy is a different matter.
> Critical literacy can _definitely_ protect people; illiteracy cannot and
> will not. That's why critical literacies are largely shunned throughout the
> world.
>
> I think the question "what are schools for?" is the question that needs to
> be answered; not whether we ensure (or at least strive for) equal access
> for all to the very best of education.
>
> Smashing public education will do more damage than it is possible to
> imagine. Thanks for the refs, I'll read them with interest.
>
> Phil
>
> At 17:56 18-05-99 -0200, you wrote:
> >You wrote:
> >"An illiterate society will be no more well equipped to protect itself
> >from the violence of ideologues than will a literate one. To argue to
> >the contrary is crazy."
> >
> >Well,
> >Recently I give a look in a book published under Valsiner and Oliveira
> >responsability in with there are very interesting articles on Literacy.
> >The book name is LITERACY IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, by Ablex Publishing
> >Corp., Stamford, Connecticut and London, England, 1998.
> >
> >The articles "Schooling, Literacy, and Social Change: Elements for a
> >Critical Approach to the Study of Literacy" by Angela Kleiman (pgs.
> >183-225)and "Conceptual Organization and Schooling" by Marta Kohl de
> >Oliveira (pgs. 227-245)sign "larger and more complex structures, and
> >cultural differences" - and not so stable relations between Literacy and
> >one's awareness/consciousness of ideologies violence action.
> >
> >
> >Ricardo.
> >
> >
> Phil Graham
> p.graham who-is-at qut.edu.au
> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/8314/index.html
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