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Working Paper Number 1. Working Papers on Literacy No. 3

出版	Centre for Literacy, 1998
ISBN	09681034219780968103425
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nI6DwgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This document is a collection of three parts, two extended papers and one shorter commentary on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). These originally appeared in Literacy Across the Curriculum in response to an invitation for comment to several prominent international researchers. The first of these entitled "The Persisting Power and Costs of the Literacy Myth" by Harvey J. Graff appeared in Volume 12, No.2, Summer 1996. The second "Literacy, Economy and Society -- A Review" by Brian V. Street was published in Volume 12, No.3, Fall 1996. The third, "Ending the Myth of the 'Literacy Myth" by Stan Jones was published in Volume 12, No.4, Winter 1997. These articles have been collected because they reflect a continuing debate on literacy between two schools of thought which have been variously called the autonomous and the socio-cultural. The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) represents a collaborative effort of seven governments in the industrialized world to measure the literacy skills of their adult populations. The results have been widely disseminated and are being studied as the basis for social economic and educational policy in the participating countries. Because of the potentially broad implications of the survey, The Centre for Literacy invited commentaries from researchers with different disciplinary perspectives and different understandings of the nature and purposes of literacies. At the time of printing this collection, the debate among them was continuing.