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Literacy As Snake Oil : Beyond the Quick Fix (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, Vol. 1)reviewed by Julie Nora - 2003 Title: Literacy As Snake Oil : Beyond the Quick Fix (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, Vol. 1) Author(s): Joanne Larson (Editor) Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York ISBN: 0820450219, Pages: 160, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Literacy as Snake Oil: Beyond the Quick Fix kicks off the
series New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies , a series
which aims to “contribute to the struggle to understand and
develop effective principles and responses to deep and
far-reaching social, economic, political, and technological changes
since the 1950s” (introduction). General editors of the
series are Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel, Chris Bigum, and
Michael Peters. The volume represents a good beginning to
reaching that goal.
The title of this volume returns us to the 1800s, when the drug
industry in the United States flourished, with medicines being
mass-produced and marketed for the first time. At this time,
medicines were sold in traveling circus-like shows, and often
claimed to cure everything from the most benign to the gravest
ailments. While some medicines had real medicinal value, some
were just hard liquor labeled as medicine. Others were laced
with toxic ingredients. It was difficult for patients to tell
which medicines were good and which were useless or even dangerous,
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- Julie Nora
Education Alliance, Brown University E-mail Author JULIE NORA currently works at the Education Alliance at Brown University. Her work focuses primarily on bilingual education and the education of linguistic and culturally diverse students. She has taught ESOL at middle school, university, and adult education levels in California and Rhode Island. Her research interests include socio-cultural contexts of learning and language development.
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