10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NONLITERATE»
Discover the use of
nonliterate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
nonliterate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cultures of Scholarship
The relationships among schooling, language, and knowledge — especially
through the systematic comparison of the organization, form, function, and
acquisition of institutionalized knowledge — in literate and nonliterate societies
has hardly ...
2
The Mantle of Maturity: A History of Ideas About Character ...
There are of course many strategies by which one goes about the competitive
achievement of social standing in nonliterate society, but in order to really
understand these struggles we have to look closely at the nonliterate concept of
personal ...
3
Ethnomathematics: Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics ...
I Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas of nonliterate peoples. We
recognize as mathematical thought notions that in some way correspond to that
label in our culture. For example, all humans, literate or not, impose arbitrary ...
Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein, 1997
4
Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in ...
In this chapter, I shall design a definition of feuding to apply to any nonliterate
society having a culturally well-elaborated pattern of vengeance killing. I shall
then test this definition against well-described systems of retaliatory killing from
North ...
5
Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century
193-4) on aspects of non-literacy in a way that relates to these themes:
Nonliterate man casts the net of thought over the whole world. Mythology and
religion may be closely related, but where one grows out of man's everyday life,
the other ...
Robert Louis Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, 1991
6
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Most nonliterate peoples are extreme realists. They are bent on bringing the
world under control, and many of their practices are devised to insure that reality
will perform according to their bidding. In the conviction that the spirits are on his
side ...
7
Education in the Republic of South Sudan: Status and ...
NONLITERATE YOUTH AND AES Within the 15-40 age group, an estimated 2.2
million are nonliterate out of a total population8 of about 3.2 million ages 15-40.
Paradoxically, although literacy rates have improved over time, most nonliterates
...
8
Measuring Literacy:: Performance Levels for Adults
ALSA items were not put on the same scale as the NAAL items or classified into
the three literacy areas. As a result, we could not use the ALSA questions in the
bookmark procedure. This created a de facto cut score between the nonliterate in
...
Stuart W. Elliott, Judith Anderson Koenig, Christopher F. Edley Jr., 2005
9
The Cosmology of Freedom
Havelock elaborates in detail how the fundamental patterns of experience of
western literate society were emerging in Plato's writing, and how Plato saw
profoundly what issues were separating the sensibilities of the nonliterate style ...
10
Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity
They found that, on tasks of classification and verbal reasoning, the literate
peasants provided more abstract and context-independent responses than the
nonliterate peasants, whose responses were more concrete and context-
dependent.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NONLITERATE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
nonliterate is used in the context of the following news items.
Pa. budget woes put funding for adult education at risk
Such individuals can range from being nonliterate to capable of identifying only the simplest words and phrases in written text. Adult education ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
Faith in ferment
It is one of Madigan's immense strengths that he pays full and respectful attention to the nonliterate, the physical, and the performative. «The Christian Century, Jun 15»
Dukesbay Theater's 'Agamemnon' brings ancient Greek tragedy to …
It's no mean feat to bring off ancient Greek theater in a way that makes sense to modern audiences: Written for a nonliterate crowd far more ... «TheNewsTribune.com, Jun 15»
Studies underway to help children, adults overcome …
... spearheaded by Light and McNaughton in conjunction with InvoTek, focuses on working with individuals with disabilities who are nonliterate. «Penn State News, Oct 14»
Nomads No More
As a population that was until quite recently nonliterate, they left no written records of their own. As poor people living on the margins of settled society, they were ... «Natural History Magazine, Oct 14»
How Culture Shapes Our Senses
It's a controversial claim made famous by Marshall McLuhan's insistence that nonliterate societies were governed by spoken words and sound, ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
Nubia before Napta (1–2)
This culture is denoted, as are also some other Nubian cultures, by a letter of the alphabet because it was nonliterate, no specific references to ... «Sudan Vision, Aug 14»
Clay Tokens Used As 'Contracts' Even After Invention of Writing
"It is possible that these tokens thus reflect administrative systems at different levels of literate and nonliterate society," Pappi said. Place in ... «LiveScience.com, Jul 14»
Mangyan entrepreneur creates ecohaven in the mountains
... involved in the processing of the Mangyans' ancestral domain, advocacy networking, and supervising nonformal education for the nonliterate ... «Inquirer.net, May 14»
Continued OSHA Initiatives
Employers must also provide the appropriate communications to nonliterate employees. The OSHA Fact Sheet regarding training requirements ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Dec 13»
