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The Literacy Myth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Michael Schudson*
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego

Abstract

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Type
Essay Reviews
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 by History of Education Society 

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References

Notes

1. Sanbner, Sylvia and Cole, Michael, ‘Literacy Without Schooling: Testing for Intellectual Effects,” Harvard Educational Review, 48 (November, 1978): 448461.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Laqueur, Thomas W. Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture 1780–1850 (New Haven, 1976).Google Scholar

3. Sennett, Richard and Cobb, Jonathan, The Hidden Injuries of Class (New York, 1972), pp. 2425.Google Scholar