Part I - Setting the Stage
1. Introduction
Edward M. Jennings and Alan C. Purves
2. Literacy as Culture: Emic and Etic Perspectives
Daniel Wagner
Part II - Literacy from Society's Perspective
3. Literacy, Economic Structures, and Individual and Public Policy Incentives
Douglas M. Windham
4. Literacy and the Politics of Language
Philip Foster
5. The Textual Contract: Literacy as Common Knowledge and Conventional Wisdom
Alan C. Purves
Part III - Literacy from the Individual's Perspective
6. Literacy and Individual Consciousness
F. Nyi Akinnaso
7. Becoming Literate in a Multiethnic Society
Bernardo M. Ferdman
8. Literacy and the Betterment of Individual Life
Donald A. Biggs
Part IV - The Dilemma of the School
9. Literacy in the Elementary Classroom
Sean A. Walmsley
10. Reconstructing the Classroom: Literacy and the Problem of Choice
Lil Brannon
11. Skills That Aren't Basic in a New Conception of Literacy
Catherine E. Snow and David K. Dickinson
Documentation
Index