Search -
The New Schoolhouse: Literacy, Managers, and Belief
The New Schoolhouse Literacy Managers and Belief Author:Mary-Ellen Boyle This unique book describes literacy programs that take place in contemporary workplaces and explores their consequences for the employees (especially the managers), the organizations, and society as a whole. Employing a critical sociological perspective, the author argues that literacy education in the workplace has as much to do with organizati... more »onal legitimacy and managerial ideology as with illiterate workers. Boyle suggests that employer-sponsored literacy programs have the effect of perpetuating the inequities experienced by those at the bottom of the organizational chart, despite the rhetoric of egalitarianism and opportunity that typically accompanies adult education.« less