Re: Campaign Against Public Schools

Ricardo Ottoni (rjapias who-is-at ibm.net)
Tue, 18 May 1999 17:56:25 -0200

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.