Literacy for Sustainable Development in the Age of Information

The book provides a critical overview of
• the literacy debate in academic and general educational discourse,
• the role of functional literacy in societal development programmes during the past two decades,
• a critical evaluation of the issues that surround literacy in an increasingly computer-dominated world. Part 1 provides an evaluation of the theoretical frameworks that have framed discussions about what literacy is, and what its value is to individual and societal developme…