A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age - Softcover

Sanders, Barry

 
9780679742852: A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679742859 ISBN 13: 9780679742852
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The twin crises of illiteracy and youth violence haunt our age; the failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimal levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture.
 
A is for Ox is an important and impassioned work that both proves this conclusion and suggests what can be done to change it. Sanders argues that because of the omnipresence of electronically generated images and sounds in contemporary culture, children grow up lacking the oral experience of language crucial to attaining true literacy; without the technologies of reading and writing, the development of self is stunted. By tracing the long history of literacy in the West, Sanders demonstrates how the culture of electronic media is changing both cognitive development and social interaction. Taking the issue of literacy out of the narrow context of schooling and education, Sanders compels us to consider it in relation to the fundamental issues of both personal identity and a person's unforced consent to the social contract.

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679742859
ISBN 13 
9780679742852
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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