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Literacy has long been a topic of interest, and more interdisciplinary than most. Thus there has been a series of both specific and wide-ranging studies by, for example, psychologists, sociolinguists, development experts, educationalists and,...

See also boys’ literacy, equal opportunities, gender and language development In the interests of improving gender equality, the 1970s and 1980s saw the challenging of stereotyping of girls and women in children’s literature. It was thought...

In the mid-1960s the place and meaning of the concept and the fact of literacy in the social sciences was a simple and secure one. Tied closely to the liberal, post-Englightement synthesis of modernization theory, literacy was seen as a central...

Human beings have over the ages developed a series of media to express or represent features of the social and natural world or to translate one medium into another through culturally-acceptable analogues: drum beats experienced as if spoken words,...

The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level adequate for communication,...

The United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012) With over 860 million adults worldwide who cannot read or write--one in five adults--and more than 113 million children out of school, the United Nations has launched the Literacy Decade (2 003-2012) under the theme "Literacy...

While new information and communication technologies have permeated our social, economic, and personal lives, their place in literacy education has been much slower to establish. This column reviews research that a) examines effectiveness of technology in literacy instruction and b) poses models of...

First lady Laura Bush, a former teacher and librarian, heard educators from Afghanistan to Madagascar describe their fight with illiteracy during a United Nations round table in Paris on Monday.Participants in a UNESCO conference here on teaching reading outside of traditional school settings briefed Mrs....

U.S. fourth-graders have lost ground in reading ability compared with kids around the world, according to results of a global reading test.Test results released Wednesday showed U.S. students, who took the test last year, scored about the same as they did in 2001, the last...

This was a response essay that i wrote. the question was how is the problem of alliteracy affecting you and your immediate contacts?

I am bothered by the notion that technology could impede the advancement of reading and writing. It is imperative that society embrace the power of language and not merely the power of science.