‘Why Literacy Matters’:Footnote¹

1. This is the title of UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2006, chapter 5, ‘Literacy for life’.

Exploring A Policy Perspective on Literacies, Identities and Social Change

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