| Literacy: Writing, Reading and Social Organisation Contributor(s): Oxenham, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815373716 ISBN-13: 9780815373711 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $40.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Education |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: Literacy |
| Physical Information: 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1980. The skills of reading and writing have been proclaimed as universal human rights. This book explores why this should be so. In particular, it examines whether or not the possession of reading or writing skills has, or has not, influenced the values and organisation of society. Viewing literacy as a technology, the author maintains that like all technologies, it is created by man for limited purposes. Nevertheless, given the right conditions, it can be used by man to change not only other technologies, but also himself and (in the end) all of his society. But like other technologies, literacy too may be subject to obsolescence which poses the all-important question of whether the advent of universal literacy has coincided with the redundancy of the written word. |