Workplace Literacy Education : Some Questions and Concerns / Francis E. Kazemek.

The views and practices of literacy advocates who focus on workplace literacy foster an impoverished understanding of adult literacy and, ultimately, life itself. They reduce literacy to something that is "functional" in the reductive sense of serving someone else's ends as a functionary. A "functio...

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Main Author: Kazemek, Francis E.
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992.
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Physical Description:16 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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