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Searching for Literacy

The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies

By: Harvey J. Graff

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Searching for Literacy

The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies

By: Harvey J. Graff

This book provides a critical account of the development of questions, approaches, methods, and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines. It provides a critique of literacy studies, including the New Literacy Studies. This book completes a series that the author began in the 1970s. It criticizes and revises the New Literacy Studies and how we think about literacy generally. It is a revisionist study which argues that literacy and literacy studies are historical developments and must be understood in those terms to comprehend their profound impact on our traditions of thinking about and understanding literacy, and how we study it. Graff argues that literacy studies in its academic, institutional, and policy forums, but also in popular parlance, has lost its critical foundations, and this hinders efforts to promote literacy. He examines literacy over time and across linguistics; anthropology; psychology; reading and writing across modes of communication and comprehension; “new” literacies across digital, visual, performance, numerical, and scientific domains; and history. He underscores the value of new directions of negotiation and translation. This book will interest scholars and students in the many fields that constitute literacy studies across the humanities, social sciences, education, and beyond.

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Springer Nature

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3030969819

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The Legacies of Literacy

Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society

By: Harvey J. Graff

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The Legacies of Literacy

Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society

By: Harvey J. Graff

--History of Education Quarterly"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." --Journal of Communication

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Indiana University Press

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0253205980

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Literacy Myths, Legacies, & Lessons

New Studies on Literacy

By: Harvey J. Graff

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Literacy Myths, Legacies, & Lessons

New Studies on Literacy

By: Harvey J. Graff

In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many common ideas about literacy among scholars and others. The eight wide-ranging and diverse essays speak to each other's central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations. The introduction for Literacy Myths, Legacies, & Lessons sets the stage for connections between the principal concerns of this book. Drawing on other aspects of his research, Graff places the chapters that follow in the context of current thinking and major concerns about literacy, and the development of both historical and interdisciplinary studies. Special emphasis falls upon the usefulness of "the literacy myth" as an important concept and subject for interdisciplinary study and understanding. Critical stock-taking of the field includes reflections on Graff's own research and writing of the last three decades and the relationships that connect interdisciplinary rethinking and the literacy myth. The collection is noteworthy for its attention to Graff's reflections on his identification of "the literacy myth" and in developing the LiteracyStudies@OSU initiative as a model for university-wide interdisciplinary programs. The essays also deal with ordinary fears about literacy, or illiteracy, that are shared by academics and concerned citizens. The nontechnical essays will speak to both academic and nonacademic audiences across disciplines and cultural orientations. --Book Jacket.

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1412849667

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Searching for Literacy

The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies

By: Harvey J. Graff

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The Literacy Myth

Cultural Integration and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century

By: Harvey J. Graff

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The Literacy Myth

Cultural Integration and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century

By: Harvey J. Graff

Harvey Graff's pioneering study presents a new and original interpretation of the place of literacy in nineteenth-century society and culture. Based upon an intensive comparative historical analysis, employing both qualitative and quantitative techniques, and on a wide range of sources, The Literacy Myth reevaluates the role typically assigned to literacy in historical scholarship, cultural understanding, economic development schemes, and social doctrines and ideologies.

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1412837669

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Undisciplining Knowledge

Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century

By: Harvey J. Graff

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Undisciplining Knowledge

Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century

By: Harvey J. Graff

The first critical history of interdisciplinary efforts and movements in the modern university. Interdisciplinarity—or the interrelationships among distinct fields, disciplines, or branches of knowledge in pursuit of new answers to pressing problems—is one of the most contested topics in higher education today. Some see it as a way to break down the silos of academic departments and foster creative interchange, while others view it as a destructive force that will diminish academic quality and destroy the university as we know it. In Undisciplining Knowledge, acclaimed scholar Harvey J. Graff presents readers with the first comparative and critical history of interdisciplinary initiatives in the modern university. Arranged chronologically, the book tells the engaging story of how various academic fields both embraced and fought off efforts to share knowledge with other scholars. It is a story of myths, exaggerations, and misunderstandings, on all sides. Touching on a wide variety of disciplines—including genetic biology, sociology, the humanities, communications, social relations, operations research, cognitive science, materials science, nanotechnology, cultural studies, literacy studies, and biosciences—the book examines the ideals, theories, and practices of interdisciplinarity through comparative case studies. Graff interweaves this narrative with a social, institutional, and intellectual history of interdisciplinary efforts over the 140 years of the modern university, focusing on both its implementation and evolution while exploring substantial differences in definitions, goals, institutional locations, and modes of organization across different areas of focus. Scholars across the disciplines, specialists in higher education, administrators, and interested readers will find the book’s multiple perspectives and practical advice on building and operating—and avoiding fallacies and errors—in interdisciplinary research and education invaluable.

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JHU Press

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1421417464

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Conflicting Paths

Growing Up in America

By: Harvey J. Graff

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Conflicting Paths

Growing Up in America

By: Harvey J. Graff

We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and yet there are endless variations in the way we do it. What part does culture play in the process? How much do politics and economics have to do with it? As the nation has matured, have the ways people grow up changed too? This book traces the many paths to adulthood that Americans have pursued over time. Spanning more than two centuries of intense transformation in the lives of individuals and the life of a nation, Conflicting Paths is an innovative history of growing up in America. Harvey J. Graff, a distinguished social historian, mines more than five hundred personal narratives for what they can tell us about the passage from childhood to maturity. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and letters, he builds a penetrating, complex, firsthand account of how childhood, adolescence, and youth have been experienced and understood--as functions of familial and social relations, as products of biology and physiology, and as cultural and political constructs. These first-person testimonies cross the lines of time and space, gender and class, ethnicity, age, and race. In these individual stories and the larger story they constitute, Graff exposes the way social change--including institutional developments and shifting attitudes, expectations, and policy--and personal experience intertwine in the process of growing up. Together, these narratives form a challenging, subtle guide to historical experiences and to the epochal remaking of growing up. The most socially inclusive and historically extensive of any such research, Graff's work constitutes an important chapter in the story of the family, the formation of modern society, and the complex interweaving of young people, tradition, and change.

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Harvard University Press

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0674160665

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The Dallas Myth

The Making and Unmaking of an American City

By: Harvey J. Graff

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The Dallas Myth

The Making and Unmaking of an American City

By: Harvey J. Graff

This work that proposes a novel interpretation of a city that has proudly declared its freedom from the past looks at elements that have shaped Dallas and served to limit democratic participation and exacerbate inequality.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816652694

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The Labyrinths Of Literacy

Reflections On Literacy Past And Present

By: Harvey Graff

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The Labyrinths Of Literacy

Reflections On Literacy Past And Present

By: Harvey Graff

A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, The Labyrinths of Literacy offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822979411

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Conflicting Paths

Growing Up in America

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Growing Up in America

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The Dallas Myth

The Making and Unmaking of an American City

By: Harvey J. Graff

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The Making and Unmaking of an American City

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Undisciplining Knowledge

Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century

By: Harvey J. Graff

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Interdisciplinarity in the Twentieth Century

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Scholars across the disciplines, specialists in higher education, administrators, and interested readers will find the book's multiple perspectives and practical advice on building and operating--and avoiding fallacies and errors--in interdisciplinary research and education invaluable.--Michael Bevis, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences "The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons

New Studies on Literacy

By: Harvey J. Graff

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Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons

New Studies on Literacy

By: Harvey J. Graff

In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many commonly held ideas about literacy. The book speaks to central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations.Drawing on other aspects of his research, Graff places the chapters that follow in the context of current thinking and major concerns about literacy, and the development of both historical and interdisciplinary studies. Special emphasis falls upon the usefulness of "the literacy myth" as an important subject for interdisciplinary study and understanding. Critical stock-taking of the field includes reflections on Graff's own research and writings of the last three decades, and the relationships that connect interdisciplinary rethinking and the literacy myth.The collection is noteworthy for its attention to Graff's reflections on his identification of "the literacy myth" and in developing LiteracyStudies@OSU (Ohio State University) as a model for university-wide interdisciplinary programs. It also deals with ordinary concerns about literacy, or illiteracy, that are shared by academics and concerned citizens. These nontechnical essays will speak to both academic and nonacademic audiences across disciplines and cultural orientations.

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Book's by Harvey J. Graff

Searching for Literacy

Searching for Literacy

The Legacies of Literacy

The Legacies of Literacy

Literacy Myths, Legacies, & Lessons

Literacy Myths, Legacies, & Lessons

Searching for Literacy

Searching for Literacy

The Literacy Myth

The Literacy Myth

Undisciplining Knowledge

Undisciplining Knowledge

Conflicting Paths

Conflicting Paths

The Dallas Myth

The Dallas Myth

The Labyrinths Of Literacy

The Labyrinths Of Literacy

Conflicting Paths

Conflicting Paths

The Dallas Myth

The Dallas Myth

Undisciplining Knowledge

Undisciplining Knowledge

Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons

Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons

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