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Jeff Smith. Against "Illegeracy": Toward a New Pedagogy of Civic Understanding.

Smith, Jeff. "Against 'Illegeracy': Toward a New Pedagogy of Civic Understanding." CCC 45.2 (1994): 200-219.

Abstract:

Smith proposes a solution to what he deems the lack of comprehensive and operative clout of the concept of illiteracy. Illiteracy fails to adequately describe a larger cultural failure in education and mass media. He proposes the word illegeracy as a multivalent solution. Illegeracy, he argues is more inclusive than the word illiteracy to describe "a missing skill, an unhappy state and a social (in)action that follows in consequence." Furthermore he claims illegeracy applies to a wider berth of citizens, not just to students. Three problems that contribute to illegeracy are an inability to read, a failure to see choices, and an abdicating of political power.

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"Understanding the Riots-Six Months Later." Series of articles. Los Angeles Times 16-20 Nov. 1992: Sec JJ.
Wolff, Robert Paul. "A Discourse on Grading." The Ideal of the University. Boston: Beacon, 1969. 58-68.
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