The development of writing ability in the Nordic countries in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries
The development of writing ability in the Nordic countries in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries
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十八、十九世纪北欧国家书写能力的发展
DOI:
10.1080/03468759008579189
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
0.5
通讯作者:
Ingrid Markussen
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作者:
Ingrid Markussen
The time lag between the development of reading and writing skills in the Nordic countries is a well-known fact in the field of international literacy research. 1 Some scholars think that there may have been a gap of 100-150 years between the general ability of the population to read and the general acquisition of writing skills. The question is of international interest, because in other countries the acquisition of reading and writing ability seem to be concomitant (cf. pp. 8-9). In any case, the literacy research being done in Western countries utilizes source material on writing ability to determine the literacy of a population, ie, its ability to both read and write, assuming that the ability to write presupposes a certain reading ability. 2 An examination of the time lag problem may indicate some answers to the question of why the development of literacy in the Nordic countries deviated from the general European pattern. Literacy research in the Nordic countries differs, therefore, from international research in virtue of the problems posed by the developmental separation of reading and writing. For this reason the types of source material are also different from those used in international research.The main sources for determining the writing skill of the population arc of a qualitative type: statements by administration officials, peasant journals, materials connected with the development of schools and writing instruction. Statistical information from the Ministry of War and from prisons on the literacy of soldiers and prisoners and statistics