Reading And Righting Wrongs: Literacy And The Underclass  

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Lankshear, Colin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 3 no. 3 (1989), page 167-182.
Fulltext: Vol. 03, no 3, p 167-182.pdf (1.13MB)

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'Literacy' does not refer to a specific skill or technology. It is an umbrella term covering a vast range of actual reading and writing practices. We do better to speak of literacies than literacy. The many forms that literacy actually takes within everyday life can be classified in various ways. One is by distinguishing critical from naive forms. Critical literacies harness reading and writing to the exercise of 'sociological imagination' (C. Wright Mills). Naive forms negate sociological imagination and are potent media for distorting and mystifying social reality. Current economic policies and conditions are creating, and in some countries consolidating, an underclass. In the US the problem of the underclass has emerged as a major social concern. Yet our thinking about such concerns is often confused. Published views about economic reality and its attendant problems frequently generate or add to confusion here, by imposing naively literate views on their audiences. One specific account of the underclass advanced in a prestigious international weekly is critiqued as a case of naive literacy, and a critically literate alternative suggested in its place. The role of schooling in fostering naive literacy is discussed and ideas offered as to how classroom teaching might be better directed toward its true goal of promoting critical literacy.

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