Literacy Crises

My name is Robert McDaniels, and I'll be your blogger for the moment.

I'm a CS major who enjoys to write on occasion, but let's get right to it.

The topic for the week (or two) is JP Gee's "Literacy Crises," a look into the recurrent political and social so-called crises of literacy throughout history. That is to say, several times in our history we've found the gap between the rich and the poor alarming enough to be considered a crisis. A war on illiteracy, right? Well, we'll be reading this for class to get introduced to the major theme of social status's impact on the academic achievement of the poor vs the rich.

We'll get there soon enough, Gaston. Thanks for reading.

Gee, James Paul. Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourses. Routledge, 2007.