Print literacy as oppression: Cases of bureaucratic, colonial, and totalitarian literacies and their implications for schooling

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Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 197-244

  Matusov, Eugene ^a   Julien, John St ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Educational consultant living and working out of Lafayette   (United States)

^c StJulien Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Colonialism; Oppression; Print literacy; Schooling; Totalitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949193697     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.2004.008     Document Type: Article

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