Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
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An argument for establishing a core curriculum of the basic information everyone needs to know, based on the author's hypothesis that being culturally literate is the foundation of intellectual competence.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Literacy & cultural literacy
The discovery of the schema
National language & national culture
American diversity & public discourse
Cultural literacy & the schools
The practical outlook
Appendix: what literate Americans know
Notes
Index
- Format:
- Pages:251 pages
- Publication:1988
- Publisher:
- Edition:Updated and Expanded, 1st edtion
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:0394758439
- ISBN13:9780394758435
- kindle Asin:B0BXB9HRRF