Arnove and Graff 1987

Arnove, Robert F., and Harvey J. Graff (editors). 1987.National literacy campaigns: Historical and comparative perspectives. New York: Plenum. 322 pages. 0306424584. (Review by Pruett 1993.) Location: Dallas SIL Library 374.012 N277. Interest level: specialist.

Goal is to explore 500 years of literacy campaigns in vastly different societies:

• Reformation Germany
• Early modern Sweden and Scotland
• Nineteenth century United States
• Nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia and the Former Soviet Union
• Prerevolutionary and revolutionary China
• A variety of developing countries in the post-World War II period (Tanzania, Cuba, Nicaragua, and India)

Includes studies of the UNESCO-sponsored World Literacy Program and recent adult literacy efforts in three industrialized western countries (United Kingdom, France, and the United States). Discusses

• literacy goals and outcomes
• individual and societal transformations
• theoretical overview and case studies, and
• diverse research methods (archival, observational, and ethnographic approaches)

• Bibliography module: Arnove and Graff 1987
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): A
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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