Literacy Reading the Word and the World

Subjects:

• Education » Educational Foundations

Awards:

• American Educational Studies Association, Critics' Choice Award, 1987

Reviews:

• Every chapter . . . asks teachers to think again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils and how to get on with it.
  —The Times Educational Supplement
• [This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning.
  —Contemporary Sociology
• Freire and Macedo's work cannot be ignored by the student of educational change in contemporary society. It should be consulted by anyone who believes in using education as a vehicle of social change.
  —Small Press Book Review
• Freire's provocative explanation of [literacy] could lead to a constructive `dialectical debate' in the United States.
  —The Los Angeles Times

• Endorsement From Harvard Educational Review: At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth. . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response.