Knoblauch

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Apply Scribner's three metaprhores of literacy or Knoblauch's four definitions of literacy to the differents schools in Anyon's article. Which shcool corresponds to which metaphor or definition, and why do you think so? Knoblauch did not give any concrete defition of literacy, but he insisted in clasifying literacy in four groups: Functional Literacy, Cultural Literacy, Personal Growth, and Critical Literacy. Similarly, Anyon defined four types of schools based on her researchs and observation in five different schools from four diferent social clases. Knoblauch and Anyon did not emphasized thier articles in looking for definition of litecary, but show how is implemeted and perceived, and if it is properly used in our society. According to …show more content…

Functional Literacy and the Working Class, technically belong to the social lower classes, and the individuals are just mandated to learn the minimal skills for dayli life survival. In Functional Literacy and Working Classs, the participants are being taught in a rigid way without any type af allowance to try other options or be creative. They are designed to function by followint the directions and play an especific role that has been choosen for them. And we can confifm this argument through the author's words in the article when she said "Work is often evaluated not according to whether it is right or wrong but according to whether the children followed the right steps" (Anyon, 1980, p.3). Continueing to compare Knoblauch defitions with Anyon's types of classes we have the Cultural Literacy and the Middle Class. The Cultural Literacy promotes the awareness of cultural heritage, "citizens must learn to speak and write decorously, as well as functionally, and must also read great books," (Knoblauch, 1990, p.4) and the oportunity to a thinking level above the Functional Literacy. The Middles Class students get thier knowledge from the books, and the are there to support them. They are allowed to think or to

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