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Review Article--Humanizing Functional Literacy: Beyond Utilitarian Necessity.
Lankshear, Colin
Educational Theory, v36 n4 p375-87 Fall 1986
"Illiterate America," a book by Jonathon Kozol is used as a platform to propose an alternative model of functional literacy which does not adjust the disadvantaged to the status quo, but enables them to acquire intellectual access to their world and their place within that world. (MT)
Descriptors: Economic Status, Functional Literacy, Power Structure, Racial Bias, Sex Bias, Sociocultural Patterns
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Language: English
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