“Harvey Graff has been exploring and mapping the labyrinths of literacy since the early 1970s. In a steady stream of books, and essays, Graff has been busily ‘deconstrucing’ our conventional conceptions of literacy as a precondition to meaningful reconstruction. . . . In chapters that vary in terms of specific focus, depth and nature of criticism, and explicitness of theoretical and policy orientations, Graff offers his readers a series of compass readings that have led him into—but not necessarily out of—the labyrinth of literacy.”
--Journal of Educational Administration and History