Recent Trends in Literacy Studies and Their Application to China
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v28i2.52356Abstract
Established views about literacy's role in the making of the modem world have come under increasing attack in recent years by a new scholarship which seeks to relate the literacy "myth" to the actual uses of literacy within a wide array of social and historical settings. In this paper I contribute to the revisionism in literacy studies by applying its main theoretical premises to the greatly neglected subject of literacy in the People's Republic of China. I examine the social construction of literacy in China after the communist revolution in 1949, showing how official literacy ideologies contributed to the formation and reproduction of rural-urban differences in Chinese society.
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2018-05-17
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