| Description |
xxiii, 182 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Studies in writing and rhetoric |
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Studies in writing & rhetoric.
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| Contents |
Foreword: In the Best Modern Way / Hugh Burns -- Introduction: Paying Attention to the Technology-Literacy Linkage -- Pt. 1. A New Literacy Agenda and Its Challenges. 1. Literacy and Technology Linked: The National Project to Expand Technological Literacy. 2. The Problem of Polemic: Representations of Technological Literacy in the Popular Press -- Pt. 2. An Analysis of Social Investment in the New Literacy Agenda. 3. The Role of Government. 4. The Role of Education. 5. The Role of Business and Industry. 6. The Role of Parents. 7. The Role of Ideology -- Pt. 3. The Future and Our Responsibility: Sites and Plans for Action and Change. 8. Paying Attention to Technology, Learning about Literacy. 9. Working for Change |
| Summary |
"Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET. "To provide a specific case study of this complex cultural formation, Cynthia L. Selfe discusses the Technology Literacy Challenge, an official, federally sponsored literacy project begun in 1996 that has changed - at fundamentally important levels - the definition of literacy and the practices recognized as constituting literate behavior in America. Selfe tries to identify the effects of this new literacy agenda, focusing specifically on what she calls "serious and shameful" inequities it fosters in our culture and in the public education system: among them, the continuing presence of racism, poverty, and illiteracy."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176 and index |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-176) and index |
| Subject |
Computers and literacy -- United States.
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Technological literacy -- United States.
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Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| LC no. |
99011478 |
| ISBN |
0809322692 paperback alkaline paper |
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