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A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that ...
E.D. Hirsch on ‘Cultural Literacy’. In 1988, E. D. Hirsch, a professor at the University of Virginia, wrote a best selling book which argued that progressivist education with its focus on experience had let down America’s students by neglecting knowledge in the form of a shared body of information. The book included a list of 5,000 facts ...
Hirsch is best known for his 1987 book Cultural Literacy, which was a national best-seller and a catalyst for the standards movement in American education. [2] Cultural Literacy included a list of approximately 5,000 "names, phrases, dates, and concepts every American should know" in order to be "culturally literate."
Cultural literacy is a term coined by American educator and literary critic E. D. Hirsch, referring to the ability to understand and participate fluently in a given culture. Cultural literacy is an analogy to literacy proper (the ability to read and write letters).
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. ISBN: 978-0-394758-43-5. A surprise bestseller when first published in 1987, this groundbreaking work explains the ideas behind the Core Knowledge movement. “To be culturally literate,” says E. D. Hirsch, Jr., “is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.”.
E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 12, 1988 - Education - 272 pages. A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the...
Cultural literacy : what every American needs to know. by. Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald), 1928-; Kett, Joseph F; Trefil, James S., 1938- Publication date. 1987. Topics. Educational anthropology, Culture, Multicultural education, Literacy. Publisher. Boston : Houghton Mifflin. Collection. internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled.