Producing good citizens : literacy training in anxious times / Amy J. Wan.
Producing good citizens : literacy training in anxious times / Amy J. Wan.
Producing good citizens : literacy training in anxious times / Amy J. Wan.
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Publisher
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]
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G 2014/3902
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 218 pages ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
In the Name of Citizenship -- Literacy Training, Americanization, and the Cultivation of the Productive Worker-Citizen -- Class Work : Labor Education and Literacy Hope -- English and Useful Citizenship in a Culture of Aspiration -- Teaching Literacy and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century.
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Publisher
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
"Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon, looking specifically to the period just before W...
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Producing good citizens : literacy training in anxious times / Amy J. Wan.
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Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2014/3902
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74VKKMwEmAvA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKMwEmAvA
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ISBN
9780822962892 (paperback : acid-free paper)
0822962896 (paperback : acid-free paper)
DDC
302.2244
MMS ID
991021791569702626
