{"product_id":"searching-for-literacy-the-social-and-intellectual-origins-of-literacy-studies-hardcover","title":"Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarvey J. Graff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a critical account of the development of questions, approaches, methods, and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines. It provides a critique of literacy studies, including the New Literacy Studies. This book completes a series that the author began in the 1970s. It criticizes and revises the New Literacy Studies and how we think about literacy generally. It is a revisionist study which argues that literacy and literacy studies are historical developments and must be understood in those terms to comprehend their profound impact on our traditions of thinking about and understanding literacy, and how we study it. Graff argues that literacy studies in its academic, institutional, and policy forums, but also in popular parlance, has lost its critical foundations, and this hinders efforts to promote literacy. He examines literacy over time and across linguistics; anthropology; psychology; reading and writing across modes of communication and comprehension; \"new\" literacies across digital, visual, performance, numerical, and scientific domains; and history. He underscores the value of new directions of negotiation and translation. This book will interest scholars and students in the many fields that constitute literacy studies across the humanities, social sciences, education, and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​\"Professor Graff is among the most influential social historians of our time and has been a trailblazer within the growing field of literacy studies for years. Given his amazing intellectual scope and experience, his newest book should draw attention to critical issues in international educational systems. I would encourage anyone interested in literary practices and education to read this book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, \u003c\/b\u003e Professor of History, University of Iceland; author of \u003ci\u003eWasteland with Words; Minor History and Microhistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides a critical account of the development of questions, approaches, methods, and understandings of literacy within and across disciplines and interdisciplines. It provides a critique of literacy studies, including the New Literacy Studies. This book completes a series that the author began in the 1970s. It criticizes and revises the New Literacy Studies and how we think about literacy generally. It is a revisionist study which argues that literacy and literacy studies are historical developments and must be understood in those terms to comprehend their profound impact on our traditions of thinking about and understanding literacy, and how we study it. Graff argues that literacy studies in its academic, institutional, and policy forums, but also in popular parlance, has lost its critical foundations, and this hinders efforts to promote literacy. He examines literacy over time and across linguistics; anthropology; psychology; reading and writing across modes of communication and comprehension; \"new\" literacies across digital, visual, performance, numerical, and scientific domains; and history. He underscores the value of new directions of negotiation and translation. This book will interest scholars and students in the many fields that constitute literacy studies across the humanities, social sciences, education, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarvey J. Graff\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of English and History at The Ohio State University, USA. He was inaugural Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and founded the university-wide interdisciplinary initiative LiteracyStudies@OSU. One of the world's authorities, his books are recognized landmarks, from \u003ci\u003eThe Literacy Myth\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Legacies of Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Labyrinths of Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e, among others on children and youth, cities, and interdisciplinarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarvey J. Graff\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of English and History at The Ohio State University, USA. He was inaugural Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and founded the university-wide interdisciplinary initiative LiteracyStudies@OSU. One of the world's authorities, his books are recognized landmarks, from \u003ci\u003eThe Literacy Myth\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Legacies of Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Labyrinths of Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e, among others on children and youth, cities, and interdisciplinarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 314\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42120351285383,"sku":"9783030969806","price":129.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e06527d0f8c38c326e05a859ef322ba9.webp?v=1732546683","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/searching-for-literacy-the-social-and-intellectual-origins-of-literacy-studies-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}