Gerald Coles
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 226
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The dominant debate over literacy disregards the myriad societal influences that affect teaching and learning, influences that are not readily visible in the classroom. No debate can adequately understand how literacy is taught and learned, what causes literacy achievement and underachievement, or how literacy "success" is defined unless it accounts for these "macro" influences. If the debate over literacy were more about politics, economics, and power in society and less about the "best" way to teach literacy, we would better understand how to rear literate children.--Intro., p. 8