Cultural Literacy

Author : E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394758439
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.

Author : Ralph Alexander Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062155
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy & Arts Education written by Ralph Alexander Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen experts in the visual arts, literature, music, dance, and theater responded to the arguments of E. D. Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know", focusing particularily on his alarm at the serious slippage that has occurred in the background knowledge and information prerequisite for effective communication. These authorities addressed two questions: (1) What it means for people to be "literate" (that is, able to understand communications and have relevant experiences) in various art forms? (2) What sorts of context should such individuals bring to their encounters with works in these art forms and what would that imply for arts education? The contributing specialists are E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Harry S. Broudy, Jerrold Levinson, Patti P. Gillespie, Walter H. Clark, Jr., John Adkins Richardson, Francis Sparshott, Clifton Olds, Marcia Muelder Eaton, Ronald Berman, Lucian Krukowski, Michael J. Parsons, and David J. Elliot. (KM)

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618226474
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.

Author : Bonnie M. Davis
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 1936764423
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy for the Common Core written by Bonnie M. Davis and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your cultural literacy while inspiring deep, thoughtful, unbiased thinking in students. Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate that complements the Common Core and encourages students to be at the center of learning. Explore how to develop teacher-student relationships, engage in collaborative conversations, and encourage feedback to give voice to the increasingly diverse student body found in today’s classrooms

Author : Tuuli Lähdesmäki
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030892360
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Cultural Literacy Through Creative Practices in Schools written by Tuuli Lähdesmäki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses how cultural literacy can be taught and learned through creative practices. It approaches cultural literacy as a dialogic social process based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. The book focuses on meaning-making in children and young people's visual and multimodal artefacts created by students aged 5-15 as an outcome of the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme implemented in schools in Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal, and the UK. The lessons in the program address different social and cultural themes, ranging from one's cultural attachments to being part of a community and engaging more broadly in society. The artefacts are explored through data-driven content analysis and self-reflexive and collaborative interpretation and discussed through multimodality and a sociocultural approach to children's visual expression. This interdisciplinary volume draws on cultural studies, communication studies, art education, and educational sciences. Tuuli Lähdesmäki is an associate professor at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Jūratė Baranova was a professor at the Department of Continental Philosophy and Religious Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Susanne C. Ylönen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Aino-Kaisa Koistinen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Katja Mäkinen is a senior researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Vaiva Juškiene is a junior researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Irena Zaleskienė is a senior researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Author : Naomi Segal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137429704
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Literature to Cultural Literacy written by Naomi Segal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues – especially issues of change and mobility – through the lens of literary thinking. The essays range from cultural memory and migration to electronic textuality and biopolitics.

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780867534207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to enable students to make sense of what they read through prior knowledge of events, etc.

Author : Christine Uber Grosse
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527533875
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Manager’s Guide to Cultural Literacy written by Christine Uber Grosse and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global managers need to communicate and connect with many different cultures. The new language of business is cultural literacy, which encompasses basic knowledge of business language, culture and the local economy. This book provides a general overview and specific examples of cultural literacy. It will provide managers with a basic understanding of the business language, culture and economy of seven countries in the G-20, including Brazil, Mexico and the US in the Americas, China and South Korea in Asia, and France and Germany in Europe. For global managers, knowing even the basics about a country’s culture, language and economy is invaluable for making connections, doing business, and communicating across cultures. Clearly managers do not have time to learn the language of every country they visit. However, they can invest time to develop basic cultural literacy of the countries to which they travel. Cultural literacy gives them a baseline of knowledge to connect with customers, suppliers and co-workers, and shows respect for people and their culture. It also helps businesspeople find common ground on which to build business relationships. This volume offers business students and managers a quick introduction to language basics and cultural knowledge, and familiarity with the business environment of seven countries. In addition, it provides a template for developing basic business language literacy, and building business connections with people from other countries.

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618408535
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated for the twenty-first century, The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy lists essential facts in twenty-one subject areas to promote successful learning in kids. Child education expert E. D. Hirsch Jr. cuts through the wealth of information available today to highlight terms that a child should be familiar with by the end of sixth grade. With nearly 3,000 concise definitions and including 250 new entries (like Harry Potter, centaurs, northern lights, and World Series), this popular sourcebook makes it easy for children to become literate in mythology, literature, U.S. history, science and technology, and more.

Author : Hirsch, Jr. (E.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know written by Hirsch, Jr. (E.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: