Scribner

Scribner

• "Literacy is an outcome of cultural transmission.... It follows that individual literacy is relative to social literacy" (Scribner 35).

Scribner's Metaphors

• Literacy as Adaptation
• Literacy as Power
• Literacy as a State of Grace

"Learning how literacy functions among a people far removed from us culturally and geographically may help us take a new look at its functions here at home" (44).

"Literacy, Opportunity, and Economic Change" by Deborah Brandt

What does literacy have to do with economics?

How does economics impact people's ability to become & stay literate?