Literacy
Here are entered general works on the ability to read and write, often in relation to the expected norm for a particular group or culture.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Literacy -- Developing countries
- Literacy -- Europe, Eastern
- Literacy -- Government policy
- Literacy -- India
- Literacy -- New England
- Literacy -- Political aspects
- Literacy -- Research
- Literacy -- Social aspects
- Literacy -- Study and teaching
- Literacy -- United States
- Computers and literacy
- Elementary education of adults
- Functional literacy
- Literacy in literature
- Illiteracy
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The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies (2014), by Doug Belshaw (PDF at dougbelshaw.com)- The Design, Development, and Evaluation of Literacy Education: Application and Practice (LEAP), by Elizabeth C. Stephens (HTML at archive.org)
- An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)
- Reading in the Mobile Era: A Study of Mobile Reading in Developing Countries (Paris: UNESCO, 2014), by Mark West and Han Ei Chew (PDF with commentary at unesco.org)
- Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2004), by Iris Parush (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
- The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Francis Cody (multiple formats at Cornell)
- Family Literacy: Directions in Research and Implications for Practice; Summary of Papers of a National Symposium (Washington: GPO, 1996), ed. by L. Ann Benjamin and Jerome Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
- Family Literacy: Directions in Research and Implications for Practice; Summary of Papers of a National Symposium (Washington: GPO, 1996), ed. by L. Ann Benjamin and Jerome Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Light of Knowledge: Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2013), by Francis Cody (multiple formats at Cornell)
- Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)
- Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading (Washington: Allance for Excellent Education, c2010), by Steve Graham and Michael Hebert (PDF with commentary at carengie.org)
- The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
- Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (c2008), by Elenore Long (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
- Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by Bronwyn T. Williams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (2010), by Common Core State Standards Initiative (HTML and PDF at corestandards.org)
- Reading in the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy and Biliteracy (originally printed 1978, reprinted 1984), by Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman, and Barbara Flores (page images at HathiTrust)
- Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- The Rhetorical Dimensions of Cyberspace (c1996), ed. by Beth Williams Baldwin and Tim Flood (frame-dependent HTML at Colorado State)
- The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
- A New Literacies Dictionary: Primer for the Twenty-First Century Learner (c2011), by Adam Mackie (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
- Research-Based Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction (2002), by John Kruidenier
- Rhetorics of Literacy: The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Nadia Nurhussein (PDF at Ohio State)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Education- The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (PDF at Romantic Circles)
- Schools in Crisis: Training for Success of Failure? (electronic edition; Houston: Advance Publishing, 2009), by Carl Sommer (PDF files at advancepublishing.com)
- The Child and the Curriculum (28th impression; Chicago et al.: University of Chicago Press, 1966), by John Dewey
- Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (Everyman's Library #504; London: Dent; New York: Dutton, reprinted 1963), by Herbert Spencer, contrib. by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
- Only by Understanding: Education and International Organization (with "Post-War Social Education" by Roy A. Price; Headline Series #52; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1945), by William G. Carr, contrib. by Roy A. Price (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Primary Teacher Steps Out (Boston and New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1936), by Miriam Kallen, contrib. by V. T. Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Abstracts of Dissertations and Theses in Education at the University of Michigan, 1917-1931 (Ann Arbor: Bureau of Educational Reference and Research, School of Education, University of Michigan, ca. 1932), by University of Michigan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Four Essentials of Education (New York et al.: C. Scribner's sons, c1926), by Thomas Jesse Jones, contrib. by Franklin Henry Giddings and Michael Sadler (page images at HathiTrust)
- On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1926), by Bertrand Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina in Gerard Hall (Raleigh, NC: Printed by T. Loring, 1844), by James B. Shepard
- Cambridge Essays on Education (1919), ed. by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
- The Century of the Child (New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1909), by Ellen Key, trans. by Francis Maro (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Child Under Eight (1920), by E. R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith (Gutenberg text)
- Comenius' School of Infancy: An Essay on the Education of Youth During the First Six Years (Boston: D. C. Heath, 1896), by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by W. S. Monroe (PDF files at Roehampton)
- The Culture Demanded by Modern Life: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education, by Edward Livingston Youmans (page images at MOA)
- Education (Oakland, CA et al.: Pacific Press Pub. Co., c1903), by Ellen G. White (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Education and the Philosophical Ideal (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Horatio W. Dresser (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Education as Service, by J. Krishnamurti (Gutenberg text)
- Education: Its Relations to the State and to the Individual, and Its Methods, by George Ferdinand Becker (page images at MOA)
- The Education of the Child, by Ellen Key (Gutenberg text)
- Facts in Jingles (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1915), by Winifred Sackville Stoner, ed. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Froebel's Chief Writings on Education (London: Edward Arnold, 1912), by Friedrich Fröbel, trans. by Samuel Sigmund Fechheimer Fletcher and James Welton (PDF files at Roehampton)
- How Gertrude Teaches Her Children: An Attempt to Help Mothers to Teach Their Children and an Account of the Method (London: S. Sonnenschein; Syracuse, NY: C.W. Bardeen, 1894), by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, ed. by Ebenezer Cooke, trans. by Lucy E. Holland and Francis C. Turner
- Lecture on the Duties and Relations of Parents, Teachers and Pupils, by Charles Davies (page images at MOA)
- Levana: or, The Doctrine of Education (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1874), by Jean Paul
- Levana: or, The Doctrine of Education (with biographical material; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1891), by Jean Paul (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Manual of Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1916), by Winifred Sackville Stoner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Means and Ends of Universal Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
- The Metaphysics of Education (Boston: Mayhew Pub. Co., 1914), by Arthur C. Fleshman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Modern Inquiries: Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1867), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
- Natural Education (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c1914), by Winifred Sackville Stoner, contrib. by M. V. O'Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plain Educational Talks with Teachers and Parents, by Albert N. Raub (page images at MOA)
- Popular Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
- Practical Education (second American edition, 2 volumes; Providence: J. F. Lippitt; Boston: T. B. Wait and Sons, 1815), by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
- Practical Education (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Progressive Education, Commencing With the Infant (Boston: W.D. Ticknor, 1835), by Albertine-Adrienne Necker de Saussure, trans. by Emma Willard and Mrs. Lincoln Phelps (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Science and Education: Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text)
- Science of Education (official Ontario normal school manual; Toronto: Ryerson Press, c1915), by Ontario Department of Education
- The Science of Education, and Art of Teaching (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys and Co., 1859), by John Ogden (page images at MOA)
- The Scientific Basis of Education, by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
- The Origins and Development of Elementary-School Science (Columbia doctoral dissertation; Chicago et al.: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1941), by Orra Ervin Underhill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Limitations of the Educational Theory of John Dewey (doctoral dissertation; Washington: Catholic University of America, 1929), by James Henry O'Hara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Before Books (New York: Adelphi Co., c1926), by Caroline Pratt and Jessie Stanton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities, by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)
- Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1915), by Will Levington Comfort (page images at HathiTrust)
- Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1916), by Will Levington Comfort (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Colloquies on Religion and Religious Education (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), by John Minter Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Education of Karl Witte: or, The Training of the Child (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1914), by Karl Heinrich Gottfried Witte, ed. by H. Addington Bruce, trans. by Leo Wiener
- The Enquirer (new edition; Edinburgh: J. Anderson, 1823), by William Godwin
- The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature, in a Series of Essays (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1797), by William Godwin
- An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (revised and expanded edition), by John Foster (Gutenberg text)
- Essays on Duty and Discipline: A Series of Papers on the Training of Children in Relation to Social and National Welfare (40 essays in 1 volume; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1913), ed. by Isabel Marris (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
- Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth (London: William Pickering, 1851), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at Google)
- An Experiment With a Project Curriculum (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Ellsworth Collings, contrib. by William Heard Kilpatrick
- The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (London: Printed for J. Walker and Co., 1814), by Isaac Watts (page images at Google)
- Militarism in Education: A Contribution to Educational Reconstruction (London: Swarthmore Press, ca. 1919), by John Langdon-Davies (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)
- The Parents' Manual: or, Home and School Training, by Hiram Orcutt (page images at MOA)
- The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
- Study of Child Life (Chicago: American School of Home Economics, 1911), by Marion Foster Washburne (page images at HathiTrust)
- El Tempe Arjentino: ó, El Delta de los Rios Uruguay, Paraná y Plata, Con un Discurso Preliminar del A. Magariños Cervantes, y Seguido de los Consejos de Oro Sobre la Educacion (5th edition, in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Imp. Americana, 1870), by Marcos Sastre, contrib. by Alejandro Magariños Cervantes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Household Education (London: E. Moxon, 1849), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lectures and Essays (London: Macmillan and Co., 1870), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Mother's Book (Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831), by Lydia Maria Child (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Religion, Agnosticism, and Education (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1902), by John Lancaster Spalding (HTML at Notre Dame)
- Wings and the Child: or, The Building of Magic Cities (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by E. Nesbit, illust. by George Barraud (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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