1. Literacy and Status in Our Society
The third point presented by Knoblauch is the literacy-for-personal-growth argument. This argument presents the idea that "language expresses the power of the individual imagination- as well as harbors the idea of "educational and social change- (Knoblauch, 126). The fourth argument is the critical literacy argument. This argument's primary focus "is to identify reading and writing abilities with a critical consciousness of the social conditions in which people find themselves, recognizing the extent to which language practices objectify and rationalize these conditions and the extent ...
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