World Literacy - John W. (Central Connecticut State University Miller - Bog

Summarizing the findings of international literacy assessments, this book examines literate behavior worldwide, in terms of both the ability of populations from a wide variety of nations to read and the practice of literate behavior in those nations. Literacy, and in particular the practice of literate behaviors, is used as a lens through which to view countries¿ economic development, gender equality, resource utilization, and ethnic discrimination.