ABSTRACT

The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|50 pages

The World of the School

chapter 3|22 pages

Ways of Teaching

chapter 4|16 pages

Higher Education

chapter 5|25 pages

Ways of Learning

chapter 6|16 pages

Sources and Measures of Literacy

chapter 7|32 pages

Profiles of Literacy

chapter 8|53 pages

Books and Readers

chapter 9|33 pages

Language, Orality and the Uses of Literacy

chapter 10|6 pages

Conclusion