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Literacy and Divergence: The Invention of Writing and Reading book cover

1st Edition

Literacy and Divergence The Invention of Writing and Reading

By Mark Dressman, Dingxin Rao Copyright 2027
194 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a pioneering exploration of literacy, integrating multidisciplinary perspectives into a framework that conceptualizes literacy as an interaction among technologies, codes, purposes, and practices within and across cultural and historical contexts. The volume traces the global emergence of writing and reading systems across five regions: East Asia (encompassing China, Korea,... Read more

1 What Is Literacy?  2 Literacy in China and East Asia  3 European Alphabetic Literacy  4 Literacy in the Middle East and Africa  5 Brahmic Scripts and Southeast Asian Literacy  6 Indigenous Literacy in the Americas  7 Convergence and Divergence: What Was Literacy at Its Beginnings?

Biography

Mark DRESSMAN is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US), in the College of Education. His areas of research currently are comparative literacy, informal digital learning of English, and second-language writing. He has previously published Using Social Theory in Educational Research: A Practical Guide (2008) with Routledge.

Dingxin RAO is Associate Professor at Hangzhou Normal University (China), in the Jinghengyi School of Education. His areas of research currently are comparative literacy, Chinese language and literature education, and digital literacy.

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