KAT
Promotes Literacy for Democracy
Reflections on Literacy
Addressing
Your Concerns:
Literacy:
Necessary but NOT Sufficient
Gleanings
from the Field:
From Vocabulary Exercises to KAT Applications
Notes
about the Centerfold Lesson
Using KAT to Enhance
Literacy, Comprehension & Civic Action
CenterFold
Lesson
Aspects of the Literacy Issue for KAT Study
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to Your Resource Base
BreakOut
Lesson
Literacy for Democray
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Reflections
on Literacy
“If American
schools are to be defined by the search for literacy, then
civic literacy must take its place alongside science, math,
English and cultural literacy.”
Benjamin Barber “Education
for Democracy” in The Public Purpose of Education
and Schooling, eds John Goodlad & Timothy
McMannon (1997) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
“We do not
need to burn books to kill civilization, we need only to
leave them unread for a generation.”
Attributed to
educator and scholar, R.M Hutchins (1899-1977)
“…the
ability to read and write, to understand and be understood,
is critical to personal freedom and the maintenance of a
democratic society…[an aim of literacy] programs is
to ensure that all adults in this country have all the skills
required to function effectively as parents, employees, and
citizens.”
From Frequently
Asked Questions, Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc., www.literacyvolunteers.org
[Citizens need] “skills
in questioning, analyzing, comparing, contrasting and evaluating,
so they won’t become addicted to being told what to
think and do.”
R.D. Freseman, “Improving
Higher Order Thinking Skills in Middle School…” Nova
University, 1990, cited by Kathleen Cotton: “Teaching
Thinking Skills,” SIRS (NW Regional Educational Laboratory,
Close-Up # 11) www.nwrel.org
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