Originally published in 1992. The essays in this book provide an innovative forum for discussion for what are often two quite distinct enterprises: literacy research and curriculum studies.

Series Editor's Introduction. Introduction 1. Literacy, Orality, and the Functions of Curriculum William A. Reid 2. Technologies of Learning and Alphabetic Culture: The History of Writing as the History of Education Keith Haslein 3. Texts, Literacy and Schooling David Hamilton 4. Lessons from the Literacy Before Schooling 1800-1850 John Willinsky 5. The 'Received Tradition' of English Teaching: The Decline of Rhetoric and the Corruption of Grammar Frances Christie 6. Returning History: Literacy, Difference, and English Teaching in the Post-War Period Tony Burgess 7. Literacy and the Limits of Democracy James Donald 8. Stories of Social Regulation: The Micropolitics of Classroom Narrative Allan Luke 9. Curriculum as Literacy: Reading and Writing in New Times Colin Lankshear 10. Television Curriculum and Popular Literacy: Feminine Identity Politics and Family Discourse Carmen Luke 11. Literacy Studies and Curriculum Theorizing; or, The Insistence of the Letter Bill Green