Knoblauch, “Literacy and the Politics of Education” Questions: Group 1

1. We understand when Knoblauch, “Literacy and the Politics of Education” was written back in 1960 according to are class discussion, Do you think all this is still true today?

2. Is Knoblauch definition of personal growth a liberal view and used do persuade democratic viewers for helping with a political vote? When you read a article from cnn compared to foxnews is their indications of personal growth literacy in their online news articles?

3. Knoblauch showed a strong interest and favor towards Critical literacy when writing  “Literacy and the Politics of Education”, what was going on in the 1960’s to make it seem like he was wondering why Americans wasn’t using critical literacy and though he showed the importance in Critical literacy? Do you believe if he was writing it today would you think he would have more to say about it and have more negative views of the other literacy such as Functional, Cultural, and personal growth literacy? I understand he spoke a lot about  the positive of each one and the disadvantages of each, is critical literacy be used more today?

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