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Understanding Literacy in Its Historical Contexts
Harvey J Graff
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Description for Understanding Literacy in Its Historical Contexts
Hardcover. Explores the possibilities for the wider circulation and broader application of central dimensions of the early literacy studies. This work covers many aspects of literacy and social history and their respective relation to religion and gender. Editor(s): Graff, Harvey J.; Mackinnon, Alison; Sandin, Bengt; Winchester, Ian. Num Pages: 304 pages, b/w illus, diagrams & photos. BIC Classification: CFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
For nearly 30 years the work of the Swedish Lutheran pastor and pioneering social historian Egil Johansson astonished the international scholarly world. Working initially with parish registers, especially examination registers, from northern Sweden, Johansson discovered the extraordinary usefulness of these documents to detail the history of universal literacy in Sweden. In this book a group of renowned scholars review and explore the possibilities for the wider circulation and broader application of central dimensions of the early literacy studies. The active thrust and exceptional growth in historical literacy studies over the past two decades has propelled the subject into a new ... Read more
For nearly 30 years the work of the Swedish Lutheran pastor and pioneering social historian Egil Johansson astonished the international scholarly world. Working initially with parish registers, especially examination registers, from northern Sweden, Johansson discovered the extraordinary usefulness of these documents to detail the history of universal literacy in Sweden. In this book a group of renowned scholars review and explore the possibilities for the wider circulation and broader application of central dimensions of the early literacy studies. The active thrust and exceptional growth in historical literacy studies over the past two decades has propelled the subject into a new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Nordic Academic Press Sweden
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lund, Sweden
ISBN
9789185509072
SKU
V9789185509072
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About Harvey J Graff
Harvey J. Graff is the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History at The Ohio State University, U.S. Alison Mackinnon is Professor Emerita of History and Gender Studies at the Hawke Research Institute, the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. Bengt Sandin, is a Professor of Child Studies at the University ... Read more
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