Literate Systems and Individual Lives

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Literate Systems and Individual Lives is written by Edward M. Jennings and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791405133 (ISBN 10) and 9780791405130 (ISBN 13).

This book raises important questions concerning the "shame" of illiteracy. What does it mean to students to be drawn into a world where family and friends cannot follow? Can the same person appear literate and illiterate at the same time? Is literacy, for that matter, an either/or condition? Does it "hurt" to be illiterate in more than one language, more than one culture? To whom can literacy education be a threat instead of a promise? The chapters in this book confront the unknowable implication of joining literate systems, and carry us toward an understanding that can help literacy practitioners and policy-makers at local, national, and international levels to better understand the issues involved in this important area of work.