Kintgen, E., Kroll, B.
    & Rose, M.
    Southern Illinois
    University Press
    Perspectives on Literacy
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    Semester 96-2 Session: Regular Semester
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    Instructor: V. Lunga
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    341 -3 LITERACY, EDUCATION AND CULTURE
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    Office:
    Tel:
    291-291-3395
    Fax:
    291-3203
    Section: E1.00
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    Scheduled Final Exam: Y
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    E-mail:
    PREREQUISITE
    60 credit hours
    COURSE DESCRIPTION
    This course provides an introduction to the study of literacy from an interdisciplinary perspective. We shall explore
    the origins of western literacy, the conditions of which favored its development and the role of literacy in social
    evolution, the economic and cultural values of literacy, and the effects of literacy on cognitive processes. Of particular
    interest is the reliance on formal educational institutions for the mass transmission of literacy. We will be looking in
    some detail at the varying conceptions of literacy that educators have traditionally valued, and we will be looking at
    some of the current research and scholarship that attempts to explain, justify and prescribe educational practices
    intended to increase literacy.
    OBJECTIVES
    By the end of the course, students should be able to identify, analyze, and justify or criticize the aesthetic,
    communicative, cognitive and socially-transformative consequences attributed to or associated with the acquisition of
    literacy. They should know something of its history and be aware of the range of definitions traditionally currently
    given to literacy. They should have some understanding of the distinctive contributions of conceptual study and empirical
    research into literacy, and understand both the capacities and limitations of each of these approaches to literacy,
    research and practice.
    REQUIREMENTS
    Grades are based upon three components:
    1.
    A book review of one of the supplementary texts.................................................................................
    30%
    2. Mid-term ?
    Exam ?
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    30%
    3.
    Final ?
    Exam ?
    .......................................................................................................................................40%
    READINGS
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    REQ REC
    deCastell,
    & Egan, K.
    S,
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    Luke, A. ?
    University
    Cambridge ?
    Press
    Literacy. Society and Schooling

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