[AAACE-NLA] adult literacy & the U.S.political tradition

[George Demetrion]

Thanks Andrea,

That helps to illustrate the broader point that the text is contestable
in which there is no self-evident interpretation in which the text (or
the tradition) simply speaks for itself.  That's the case whether one is
speaking of biblical analysis, the US Constitution or definitions of
literacy.  It is in the very grappling with the issues in their
contestability that matters of legitimacy surface and sometimes prevail.
It is a historical phenomenon all the way down even if a more
transcendent source is giving texture to the human imagination wherein
consciousness arises.

George

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George--

I write in the spirit of critical literacy.


The two world views of Talmud, Tanakh,prophets and writings, and  New
and Old Testaments,represent such completely different world views I
don't know as even a contrast and compare is possible.

In my experience as both a Christian and a Jew, I know this first hand.
When I was younger and more foolish I used to think it was possible.
Moving between the worlds set out in both sets of sacred texts is much
much stranger than you could ever imagine.

I can follow your thoughts about adult literacy.

Andrea


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