This book presents a pioneering exploration of literacy, integrating multidisciplinary perspectives into a framework that conceptualizes literacy as an interaction among technologies, codes, purposes, and practices within and across cultural and historical contexts.
The volume traces the global emergence of writing and reading systems across five regions: East Asia (encompassing China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam); the Mediterranean and Europe (spanning phonetic alphabetic traditions and their subsequent global dissemination); the Middle East and Africa (Semitic and Afro-Asiatic writing systems); India and Southeast Asia (Brahmic writing systems); and Indigenous North America (Mesoamerican writing systems). The concluding chapter synthesizes and compares these developments. It analyzes how early literacy, wielded by government and religious officials, simultaneously fostered cultural advancement and facilitated population control. This established the foundation for widespread literacy through revolutionary advances in printing technology, industrialization, and mass education.
This work will be an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, and students of cultural studies, linguistics, historical research, anthropology, and educational theory. It will be particularly valuable to those interested in the evolution of literacy across diverse civilizations and throughout history.
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Mark Dressman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US), in the College of Education. His areas of research currently are comparative literacy, informal digital learning of English, and second-language writing. He has previously published Using Social Theory in Educational Research: A Practical Guide (2008) with Routledge.
Dingxin Rao is Associate Professor at Hangzhou Normal University (China), in the Jinghengyi School of Education. His areas of research currently are comparative literacy, Chinese language and literature education, and digital literacy.
This book presents a pioneering exploration of literacy, integrating multidisciplinary perspectives into a framework that conceptualizes literacy as an interaction among technologies, codes, purposes, and practices within and across cultural and historical contexts.
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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. This book presents a pioneering exploration of literacy, integrating multidisciplinary perspectives into a framework that conceptualizes literacy as an interaction among technologies, codes, purposes, and practices within and across cultural and historical contexts.The volume traces the global emergence of writing and reading systems across five regions: East Asia (encompassing China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam); the Mediterranean and Europe (spanning phonetic alphabetic traditions and their subsequent global dissemination); the Middle East and Africa (Semitic and Afro-Asiatic writing systems); India and Southeast Asia (Brahmic writing systems); and Indigenous North America (Mesoamerican writing systems). The concluding chapter synthesizes and compares these developments. It analyzes how early literacy, wielded by government and religious officials, simultaneously fostered cultural advancement and facilitated population control. This established the foundation for widespread literacy through revolutionary advances in printing technology, industrialization, and mass education.This work will be an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, and students of cultural studies, linguistics, historical research, anthropology, and educational theory. It will be particularly valuable to those interested in the evolution of literacy across diverse civilizations and throughout history. This book presents a pioneering exploration of literacy, integrating multidisciplinary perspectives into a framework that conceptualizes literacy as an interaction among technologies, codes, purposes, and practices within and across cultural and historical contexts. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781041333784
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