Historians and theorists of literacy have taken uncritically the legitimating myth of European colonialism: that modern schooling made rational citizens of colonized subjects. This dissertation argues instead that Gikuyu "readers" remade the techniques of schooling for their own…
One result of the political changes in Hungary in 1989-90, was the sudden switch, within state education, from compulsory study of Russian to a free choice of foreign languages. Most pupils (or their parents) opted to study English or German. Opportunities to study these languag…
The aesthetic traditions in the West may be considered bifurcated--oral and literate practices, folk and high arts, religious and secular expressions--one neither supplanting nor fully integrating the other, and yet conjoined in some movie practices. Employing a phenomenological…
This thesis presents a case study of three individuals who were born in Lebanon and immigrated to Canada at a young age. To varying degrees, all have experienced difficulty in the Canadian school system. The study seeks to answer the question of whether these difficulties were r…