y debate in their insistence that literacy is a neutral technology detached from specific social contexts (p. 226). Miller (Symposium, 1988, p. 227) cites the work of Brian Street, who believes that literacy is anything but a neutral proposition.
In "Literacy in Theory and Practice," Street (1984, cited in Symposium, 1988) argues that theorists who write about reading and writing do so in ideological terms, in spite of their efforts to be neutral; however, literacy is not a neutral technology (p. 227). Miller (1988, Symposium, p. 227) notes the main point of Street's argument when he writes, "Literacy . . . is a socially constructed form whose "influence" depends on how it was shaped in the first place. There is therefore no such thing as "literacy" as a universal phenomenon with predetermined consequences; there are only literacies, each embedded in an ideological context from which it cannot be distinguished."
If one literacy, say that of the emotions, is to be examined as to its importance for educational practice, it will be necessary to specify
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