Knoblauch And Anyon Article Analysis

Knoblauch defined literacy in 4 various elements: functional literacy, cultural literacy, personal growth literacy, and critical literacy. The Anyon article had five different schools with different economic backgrounds and placed them in four categories: working class, middle-class, affluent professional, and executive elite. Both authors used well-rounded details to establish their point of view which are similar in various ways. Some of the schools mentioned in the Anon article had similar aspects to the definition Knoblauch states in his article. Functional literacy is the most familiar type of literacy that basically stems from basic everyday functions that allows us to process information in simple terms (Knoblauch, 1990, p.3). This type of literacy doesn’t require imaginative thinking or reasoning just like the working class schools described in the Anyon article. As Anyon (1980) reminds us the teachers in this class …show more content…
Those in power are not in favor of this type of literacy because they believe that individuals are trying to stand against, and its norms. The math teacher in the Executive Elite school made the students think analytically about coming up with their own perimeter formula instead of just memorizing the standard formula expressed in books (Anyon, 1980, p.10). The teacher is trying to develop mathematical reasoning and this is a good first step into questioning certain ideals in society and deriving your own reasoning at times and not follow the crowd. Cultural literacy is the idea of being literate to studying past classic texts with higher order thinking, it seems the rise of technology weakened this process greatly (Knoblauch, 1990, p.4). Cultural literacy was not limited to one school and it was taught in the schools as social studies learning about history and how it reflects