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	Hirsch: Cultural Literacy
		The civic importance of cultural literacy lies in the fact that true enfranchisement depends upon knowledge, knowledge upon literacy, and literacy upon cultural literacy To be truly literate, citizens must be able to grasp the meaning of any piece of writing addressed to the general reader.
		Literate culture is the most democratic culture in our land: it excludes nobody; it cuts across generations and social groups and classes; it is not usually one's first culture, but it should be everyone's second, existing as it does beyond the narrow spheres of family, neighborhood and region.
		The claim that universal cultural literacy would have the effect of preserving the political and social status quo is paradoxical because in fact the traditional forms of literate culture are precisely the most effective instruments for political and social change.
	eserver.org /courses/spring97/76100o/readings/hirsch.html (9983 words)

	Cultural Literacy and the Field of the Media
		A call to a new media literacy that is as much concerned with practice as it is with theory, "Cultural Literacy and the Field of the Media" makes an important contribution to culture studies that resonates with the practical realities of media activism.
		That is to say, individual cultural fields are consistently in communication with, influenced by, and exposed to, the discourses, values, logics, meaning systems, economies, ideas and forms of capital associated with or emanating from other powerful fields (such as business, government, the legal field and, perhaps most pervasively, the media).
		Although he rarely refers to the notion of literacy, Bourdieu's theorising of the epistemological possibilities available to agents is analogous to the term as it is used here and in previous work (Schirato 1997, 1998; Schirato and Yell 2000).
	reconstruction.eserver.org /042/schirato.htm (3829 words)

	AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: 21st Century Literacies: Cultural Literacy
		Multicultural literacy is knowledge of cultures and languages, as well as the ways in which multi-sensory data (text, sound, and graphics) may introduce slant, perspective, and bias into language, subject matter, and visual content.
		In certain cultures, the act of asking a question may be associated with specific members of the community or people of authority (e.g., adults in the community, the patriarch of the family, government officials, teachers, other professionals, etc.).
		Additionally, due to cultural or socioeconomic status, a child may have never been in a classroom before and would be unfamiliar with its ways of institutionalized learning or may not have been informed by their parents or guardians of the expected classroom conduct.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/21stcent/cultural.html (6130 words)

	Cultural literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A good way to explain the cultural project of the instruction could flow is to enumerate the points in the strong agreement that have appeared in the revisions of the book and in the hundreds of letters I have received from professors and nonteachers also.
		The materials of the culture that knows to read and to write that they are recent introductions constitute yet around fifth of their total.
		Such cultural conservadurismo is lucky and useful for the intentions of the national communication.
	literacy.education112.com /cultural-literacy.htm (3221 words)

	Cultural literacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cultural literacy is the ability to converse fluently in the idioms, allusions and informal content which creates and constitutes a dominant culture.
		From being familiar with street signs to knowing historical reference to understanding the most recent slang, literacy demands interaction with the culture and reflection of it.
		However Cultural Literacy is an open book and it doesn't implant views on the readers mind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_literacy (115 words)

	Cultural Literacy in America
		A definition of cultural literacy first needs to be presented for those who do not know what it is. As Hirsch seems to be the leader of this movement, his definition of the term will be used.
		"Cultural literacy is descriptive, and therefore can only improve culture in the sense that it brings a wider range of social classes into mainstream culture (Hirsch Reflections 5)." In other words, cultural literacy allows an uneducated person or people to know the same things as the educated majority group.
		Cultural literacy is not something one can decide to acquire in a day or even a year.
	eserver.org /courses/fall96/76-100g/householder (2124 words)

	cultural literacy, alphabétisation et culture
		Literacy can be an effective means of development only if it is integrated into the cultural and social patterns of the learners.
		A focus on the interplay between education and culture particularly designed to stimulate educational decision-makers and practitioners in their attempts to maximize the contribution of education to out the fundamental changes called for by education systems confronting the future culture development.
		The whole series is devoted to what literacy represents in different human societies and tries to evaluate its influence from the point of view of the political, economic, social and cultural development of the societies in question.
	www.ahama.freesurf.fr /auteurs_themes/culture.htm (12371 words)

	Cultural Literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In an anthropological perspective, the basic goal of education is accultuation, the transmission to our children of the specific information shared by the adults of the group or polis.
		literate culture has become the common currency for social and economic exchange in our democracy, and is the only available ticket to full citizenship....
		Cultural literacy constitutes the only sure avenue of opportunity for disadvantaged children.
	www.snhhsc.milford.nh.us /cult.html (176 words)

	From the Editor: Notes On Cultural Literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Arguing that a common national vocabulary is “an instrument of communication among diverse cultures rather than a cultural or class instrument in its own right” (104), he concludes that “ideological phrase dropping about the connections between cultural literacy and social class should … leave us unimpressed” (106).
		Hirsch contends that the history of cultural literacy is similar to that of national languages, which have not been determined by the dominant class.
		What cultural literacy supports is “the specializations of modern industrial society,” “the needs of the wider economy,” “a certain kind of division of labor,” “modern economic needs,” and the requirements of “bureaucratic structures” (7374).
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n088/088001.htm (4922 words)

	The New Dictionary of Cultural L... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In addition to the thousands of terms described in the original Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, here are more than five hundred new entries to bring Americans' bank of essential knowledge up to date.
		Cultural icons that have stood the test of time (Odysseus, Leaves of Grass, Cleopatra, the Taj Mahal, D-Day) appear alongside entries on such varied concerns as cryptography, the digital divide, the European Union, Kwanzaa, pheromones, SPAM, Type A and Type B personalities, Web browsers, and much, much more.
		It is crammed full of knowledge that will truly put you on the road to cultural literacy.
	www.books-shoppe.com /prod/0618226478/The_New_Dictionary_of_Cultural_L... (768 words)

	Cultural Literacy: A Worm in the Bud? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hirsch's argument about cultural literacy runs as follows: Educators have thought that literacy might be achieved by inculcating the skills of literacy without our having to deal with any particular content.
		If we are concerned about education for literacy, he argues, we must realize that we cannot accomplish that end by mere skills teaching, that we have no choice but to educate first for cultural literacy.
		But he still seems to hold that professional educators for literacy can have nothing to do with intention, except to accept it as given in texts, whether these texts are student essays or the monuments of our cultural literacy.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n082/082001.htm (4692 words)

	The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
		Eighty percent of literate culture has been in use for more than a hundred years!
		The manifestation of one of the most influential modern educational theories, the 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.
	www.bartleby.com /59 (128 words)

	AFT: Publications: American Educator: Spring 2004: Cultural Literacy Rocks
		The movement was started by Dr. E.D. Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy and The Schools We Need, and is based on a large body of research in cognitive psychology, as well as a careful examination of several of the world’s fairest and most effective school systems.
		For those with a bit of cultural literacy, those last two lines open a vast world of associations, giving the lyrics the sort of connotations and depth we associate with poetry.
		The point isn’t that rock music is especially important (it’s not); the point is that cultural literacy has the power to make texts meaningful, even in situations far removed from the classroom.
	aft.org /pubs-reports/american_educator/spring2004/literacyroacks.html (1995 words)

	Cultural Literacy: Culture as a Field of Contest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The variability of the languages represented the variability of social interactions: full knowledge of the language of a craft or a guild was a mark of one's participation in it and of one's rights to its privileges.
		What mass literary education does, therefore, is make a cultural distinction, which in itself rests on social inequality [--on what kind of place "home" is], appear natural, grounded in inequalities of natural endowment and merit.
		The cultures which give rise to them are as other to all of us as minority cultures are to some of us" (53).
	www.orgs.muohio.edu /anthologies/cullit.htm (1154 words)

	cultural literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		He has said, "a core knowledge is required for cultural and universal literacy." (Hirsch 124) We believe that core knowledge is simply just a foundation of curriculum that students should be taught in school.
		Cultural literacy is much more then simply facts and habits.
		The only problem with what Hirsch has determined is the key to the cultural literacy list is the fact that the times are changing and the list should be updated as times change.
	www.bk.psu.edu /faculty/grobman/student/group2/lit.htm (682 words)

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		Profile of a Culturally Literate Student: Culturally literate students are knowledgeable and appreciative of the way that culture and history — their own as well as those of others — impact behaviors, beliefs, and relationships in a multicultural world.
		He/she is able to evaluate these issues critically and thoroughly.Understanding of the impact of culture on political relationshipsStudent is unaware of the ways in which culture impacts national/personal political decision-making.Student understands that culture impacts national/personal political decision-making, but his/her view tends to cast these issues in fl and white.
		However, this knowledge is sparse.Student understands some of the ideological and cultural issues that drive national decisions about access to technology and information.Student has specific and well-developed knowledge of ways in which access to technology/information is impacted by culture and political ideology.
	www.metiri.com /WebInvestigation/Stuff/rubric.doc (2905 words)

	Cultural Literacy Home
		The best lessons for cultural literacy come from the many students who sit in front of us each day in our classrooms.
		Their cultures, heritage, and stories formulate the most powerful cultural literacy curriculum.
		As we celebrate holidays and engage in the study of these cultures, may we develop stronger commitments to unity and peace.
	www.powayusd.com /projects/multicultural (151 words)

	Cultural Literacy Does Not Mean a List of Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Their complaints about cultural literacy are always complaints about “canons” or lists of “works.” But that model is far too limited; it doesn't fit the concept of cultural literacy.
		To be culturally literate, one does not need to know any specific literary texts, though one does need to know a few facts about some of them.
		Cultural literacy looks at first glance (and wrongly) as if it were inimical to those interests, because from a distance it looks like an obligatory canon of works.
	www.ade.org /ade/bulletin/N084/084001.HTM (1607 words)

	Cultural Literacy
		Cultural Literacy is the key to improving schools
		Cultural literacy is Hirsch’s proposition that a literate democracy requires a certain amount of shared knowledge.
		He states that there is a decline of shared knowledge that can be seen by the lack of communication skills young people possess, and by their inability to recall basic historical facts or communicate across generations.
	www.angelfire.com /retro2/egc/home.htm (492 words)

	Cultural Literacy
		First, true literacy requires, beyond basic reading and writing skills, the common body of information that is possessed by the general society.
		Third, to dismiss such education as elitist or as indoctrination is to fail to see it as empowerment, for only the culturally literate can hope to effect social reform.
		He has accurately analyzed a problem; his prescription is sound as far as it goes; and his goal of cultural literacy is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
	www.as.ysu.edu /~english/cea/wessling.htm (1717 words)

	Amazon.com: Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Vintage): Books: E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Cultural literacy is the background information we need to know in order to understand and to communicate in our society.
		He just acknowledges that people of different cultures tend to have knowledge of certain things and that it is helpful to be familiar with those items.
		This self-examination is a cornerstone of Western culture, and has propelled us to the top of the pile in terms of science, literature, government, philosophy, military, and a variety of other fields.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394758439?v=glance (3005 words)

	Cultural Literacy
		Second, Hirsch argues that those students whose environment outside the classroom does not stimulate the development of cultural literacy experience increasing difficulty in reading as they encounter increasingly complex written material during their studies.
		Thus, the familiarity with these items necessary for the purposes of cultural literacy can be as limited as recognizing that you've heard them before and recalling vaguely the context in which you've encountered them.
		Even though engineering students typically are among the brightest in the University, they have less opportunity to develop cultural literacy within their degree programs than students in non-technical fields.
	www.ece.msstate.edu /courses/ece1002/notes/literacy.htm (616 words)

	cultural literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I was educated in Japanese way, and had lived with Japanese culture.
		So, I assume that the differences in culture would be the key to figure out.
		As far as I know, the American literature are more as straight forward, and explain something more often in detail in order to make it more understandable and not to let readers be lost.
	www.msu.edu /user/yokoyam7/literacy.htm (409 words)

	1. The Bible. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		All educated speakers of American English need to understand what is meant when someone describes a contest as being between David and Goliath, or whether a person who has the “wisdom of Solomon” is wise or foolish, or whether saying “My cup runneth over” means the person feels fortunate or unfortunate.
		The Bible is also essential for understanding many of the moral and spiritual values of our culture, whatever our religious beliefs.
		The Bible is a central book in our culture, just as the Koran is central in other nations.
	bartleby.com /59/1 (647 words)

	Cultural Literacy
		With more than nearly 7,000 entries on every major area of knowledge, including science, technology politics, business, history, and literature, The SpellBound Cultural Literacy dictionary is that invaluable source.
		In addition to the thousands of terms described in the original Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, there are more than 500 new entries to bring the’ bank of essential knowledge up to date.
		The original entries have been fully revised to reflect recent changes in world history and politics, literature, and, especially, science and technology.
	www.compusense.net /cultural_literacy.htm (208 words)

	The Cultural Literacy Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The historic tendency of educators to promote literacy lists goes today under the moniker of "Cultural Literacy." This current incarnation promises to be even more dangerous than usual.
		The Cultural Literacy movement has replaced the National Education Association committee's emphasis on living experience with an emphasis on static academic knowledge.
		The philosophy of the literacy list is even being advocated for each grade level.
	www.engines4ed.org /hyperbook/nodes/NODE-91-pg.html (124 words)

	Christianity Today Magazine - CTLibrary.com
		A meaningful cultural radar needs to be reasonable in its demands on time and money.
		It needs to touch on all aspects of cultural formation, specifically those that are outside of one's particular interests or professional responsibility—politics, economics, sociology, and technology must all be covered.
		Elite culture must be balanced with popular culture, fringe with mainstream, and traditional with futuristic.
	www.ctlibrary.com /ct/1997/april28/7t5066.html (440 words)

	Mass Media and Cultural Literacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		They're all part of what literate Americans should know according to the national bestseller "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know." In it, Professor E.D. Hirsch discusses the basic knowledge that enables us to function in a contemporary society.
		One of the benefits of the mass media is its massiveness, its huge size, scope, impact and influence.
		Increasingly, media literacy is tied to cultural literacy.
	interact.uoregon.edu /mediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/massmedia.html (537 words)

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