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Indlæser... Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Knowaf E.D. Hirsch Jr., E. D. Hirsch
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This books changed my life. ( ) This book is more notable, in my opinion, for all the many omissions than for what it does include. The sections on history are especially lacking. There are actually not entries for slavery (although the slave trade gets a mention), pogroms, or genocide, for example. “Literature in English” is another section that doesn’t do justice to actual literature in English, especially with respect to children’s literature. Dr. Seuss actually has an entry, but where is Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown, C.S. Lewis, or Ludwig Bemelmans, to name a very few of the excluded? Other sections, which include the Bible, Mythology and Folklore, World Literature, Fine Arts, Geography, and sciences, inter alia, are similarly lacking. With resources on the World Wide Web at our disposal, I really don’t see a reason to have this book. An interesting book that illuminates all that is brought to bear upon the act of reading, comprehension, and, and interpretation. It also brings to point the importance of a unifying language and shared cultural values and understanding. The premises of a shared cultural literacy were even then idealistic in the 1980s and seemingly more so in the 21st century, but I think the underlying point about advantages of cultural literacy are still valid even if implementation may not be possible or desirable depending on who you ask. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation. No library descriptions found. |
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