"In this sense Phil is right it would be foolish especially in a culture
such as ours that defines and organizes power around a particular form
of literacy (...) That literacy, like all others has its positive and
negative characteristics which can not be abstracted from power."
Yes, Nate... Literacy and Cultural Development is a very complex issue.
And something very up-to-date too.
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Eugene
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ricardo Ottoni [mailto:rjapias@ibm.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 3:56 PM
> > > To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
> > > Subject: Re: Campaign Against Public Schools
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >