The Making of Literate SocietiesISBN: 978-0-631-22743-4
Paperback
368 pages
August 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Charts the relations between personal literacy and 'societal' literacy
- Uses case studies from 'literate' and developing societies to look at the role of literacy in social development
- Leads to the formulation of a statement of policy as to the directions that governments and other agencies should take in designing literacy programmes.
- The compilation is driven by the vision that literacy allows every society to understand itself and therefore shape its own future